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February 5, 2025

Library Research News: February 2025 Edition

In this issue:

Library Research Services: Your partner for research success

The start of a new academic year is the perfect time to explore the wide range of research support services offered by Deakin Library. Whether you’re a graduate researcher, post-doctoral fellow or established academic, our expert team is here to help you make the most of your research journey.

What are the Library’s areas of expertise?

The Library provides services to the research community in six key areas of expertise:

  1. Expert searching: Developing comprehensive, systematic, and transparent searches across multiple databases and search engines.
  2. Research data management: Addressing the various aspects of planning for research data management to meet compliance obligations, both institutional and funding related.
  3. Copyright for research: Navigating the complexities of intellectual property, including co-creators, third-party works, and licensing and publishing agreements.
  4. Publishing and open access: Supporting publishing strategies to increase the reach and impact of research, including compliance with funding organisation requirements.
  5. Research outputs stewardship: Managing, describing and preserving the University’s research outputs in the institutional repository, Deakin Research Online (DRO).
  6. Research metrics: Providing quantitative and qualitative measures of research impact and quality to support funding applications, academic promotions and more.

Who delivers these services?

Our Scholarly Services Librarians, with disciplinary expertise in STEMM and HASS fields, deliver Library research services. They have extensive knowledge and training in our areas of research expertise.

What services does the Library provide to the research community?

Library services are available to all members of the research community, including graduate researchers; post-doctoral research fellows; early, mid and senior-career researchers; and professional staff supporting research.

Here’s what we offer:

Quick links and further information

For more information about Library research services, bookmark these resources:

Would you like a librarian to present an overview of our services? Request a 30-minute presentation for your team or group via the Request a librarian presentation (research topics) form.

Deakin Library collaborates on open-access repository for NIBS Data

Deakin Library collaborated with colleagues in the Faculty of Health to create a dedicated repository for non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) data. Launched on 16 December 2024, this repository is hosted within the Library’s Figshare instance and supports the research community’s commitment to open-access data sharing by enabling data submission, storage and sharing of NIBS data.

The repository’s key features include:

The Library-based repository integrates with the Big NIBS data website, developed independently by the project team, to provide a seamless user experience. A pre-print promoting the project accompanied the launch.

NIBS refers to neuroscientific techniques that modulate brain activity without the need for surgical interventions, typically using magnetic fields or electrical currents (Corp et al., 2024). NIBS is widely used as both a clinical intervention and a research methodology for treating neurological and psychiatric conditions.

The idea for the Big NIBS data repository arose from earlier positive experiences of data sharing by a group of NIBS researchers, predominantly based at Deakin. Data-sharing repositories like this one facilitate international and cross-institutional collaboration, encourage data reuse, and enable insights from larger datasets (Allen & Mehler, 2019). Openly available data is often encouraged or mandated by funding bodies (see policies by Nature Portfolio (n.d.) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH, 2023), for example. Similar repositories have been established in fields such as neuroimaging, genomics and EEG (Markiewicz et al, 2021; Tryka et al, 2014; Jwa & Poldrack, 2022).

Mediated search service

Are you conducting a systematic or a scoping review? The Library offers a range of Evidence Synthesis support services to develop skills in systematic searching and in partnering with researchers to develop searches for reviews.

We offer self-directed learning material, workshops and consultations; and for research teams conducting systematic, scoping or other evidence syntheses, we can work with you to design your search strategy through our mediated search service. If your team has secured funding for your review, you may also consider our premium mediated search service for additional support.

To learn more about available services, visit the Evidence synthesis support services webpage.

Open Journals at Deakin updates

We are delighted to share updates from the diamond open-access journal TESOL in Context. In December, the 2024 Volume 33 Number 1 General Issue was published, and the editorial team is now calling for the submission of papers for 2025 Volume 34 Number 1.

The deadline for manuscript submissions is Monday 17 March 2025 for online publication in July 2025. Further details and submission guidelines are available from the TESOL in Context website.

TESOL in Context is hosted by the Library on Open Journals at Deakin.

Update on open access publishing agreements

All of Deakin Library’s open access publishing agreements are planned to continue in 2025. Capped agreements will reset for articles accepted from 1 January 2025 (see the recent Library Research News article for more information on capped agreements). The list of included journals changes slightly each year due to changes to the agreements, journal publishing models, or when journals move between publishers. The journal list for 2025 is currently being prepared, and updates will be added to the Open Access: Publishing Agreements guide and the Where Should I Publish tool as soon as possible.

Changes to DRO Support

As of 6 January 2025, the DRO Support email ([email protected]) has been discontinued as a contact point. All queries related to research outputs, Elements and DRO should now be directed to Contact your Librarian.

Your friendly Scholarly Services Librarians will now manage these queries, working closely with the Research Outputs team when required. This change is part of the continuing work to enhance the Library’s support of research services and consolidates contact paths. Our website and resource guides have been updated to reflect this change.

Hot tip: Request a librarian presentation

Did you know you can request a librarian presentation on a variety of different research topics? Our menu of requestable presentations includes topics such as:

All presentations run for 30 minutes and are suitable for graduate researchers, early-career, mid-career or senior-career researchers or research support staff.

Event roundup

The Library’s researcher training program kicks off our 2025 series of Graduate Researcher Workshops with Advanced literature searching on Tuesday 18 February.

This session is suitable for Graduate Researchers from any discipline area. It will help participants to develop advanced search skills to support research, including selecting databases and other information sources, working with advanced search functions and search management techniques. Participants will learn techniques for comprehensive literature searching as well as for locating hard-to-find material.

Look out for other workshops in our series in the coming months, all bookable via the Library’s What’s On page, or explore previous workshop recordings below.

Additional professional development for researchers is also available via Deakin eResearch: training and events.

Library Research News is a regular publication from the library, publishing library-related news for Deakin researchers. To stay in the loop, please subscribe to Article or access our latest issue via Research Matters.

To access library research services, please contact your librarian or navigate to Research via the library website. The library’s team of Scholarly Services Librarians bring discipline-specific expertise related to the following key areas:

References

Allen C., & Mehler D. M. A. (2019). Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond. PLoS Biol, 17(5). Article e3000246.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000246

Corp, D. T., Bereznicki, H. G. K., Barham, M. P., Clark, G. M., Chadwick, B. J., Jain, S., Khalajzadeh, H., Pascual-Leone, A., & Enticott, P. G. (2024). Big non-invasive brain stimulation data (Big NIBS data): an open-access platform and repository for NIBS data. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3pjz9

Jwa, A. S., & Poldrack, R. A. (2022). The spectrum of data sharing policies in neuroimaging data repositories. Human Brain Mapping, 43(8), 2707–2721. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25803

Markiewicz, C. J., Gorgolewski, K. J., Feingold, F., Blair, R., Halchenko, Y. O., Miller, E., Hardcastle, N., Wexler, J., Esteban, O., Goncavles, M., Jwa, A., & Poldrack, R. (2021). The OpenNeuro resource for sharing of neuroscience data. eLife, 10. Article e71774. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71774

National Institutes of Health. (2023, July). Scientific Data Sharing. Office of Science Policy. https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/scientific-data-management-policy/

Nature Portfolio. (n.d.). Reporting standards and availability of data, materials, code and protocols. https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/reporting-standards

Tryka, K. A., Hao, L., Sturcke, A., Jin, Y., Wang, Z. Y., Ziyabari, L., Lee, M., Popova, N., Sharopova, N., Kimura, M., & Feolo, M. (2014). NCBI’s Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes: dbGaP. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(D1), D975–D979. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt1211



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