Library Research News: June 2025 Edition
In this issue:
- Read-and-publish agreement update
- Explore the Library’s refreshed research space
- New EBSCOhost user interface (UI) goes live 16 June
- Hot tip: Engaging with Indigenous knowledges and data
- Event roundup
Read-and-publish agreement update
Several open access read-and-publish agreements will reach their caps before the end of the year
Read-and-publish agreements with caps limit the number of articles that can be published open access through the agreement. Several of our agreements are currently forecast to reach their caps before the end of the year:
✅ AIP Publishing Cap not expected to be reached this year
✅ Elsevier Cap not expected to be reached this year
❗ Springer Cap will be reached by early October
❗ Taylor & Francis Cap will be reached by mid-November
❗ Wiley (hybrid journals) Cap will be reached by early September
❗ Wiley (fully OA/Gold journals) Cap will be reached by mid-December
How do capped agreements work?
The cap applies to the entire CAUL consortium membership, not any individual university. Once a cap is exceeded, articles are published with subscription (closed) access unless the authors elect to pay the open access APC themselves. It is usually the acceptance date of the article that determines eligibility for the yearly cap. CAUL tracks the articles that are published through our agreements and forecasts when the caps are likely to be reached, based on publishing trends.
How can I publish my article open access if it is not accepted before the cap is reached?
For articles that miss out on open access and are published with subscription access, we recommend depositing the accepted manuscript version to Elements using free repository (green) open access in DRO after any applicable publisher embargo.
What is a read-and-publish agreement?
Read-and-publish agreements are when libraries pay a flat fee to cover both subscription access to journal content and the open access publication costs for their authors. Deakin Library participates in sixteen read-and-publish agreements negotiated by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) consortium, which means corresponding authors at Deakin don’t have to pay open access APCs in the included journals. Some agreements only include journals where open access is optional (hybrid journals), and some also include fully open access (gold) journals.
For more information on read-and-publish publishers and journals, check out the Open Access: Publishing Agreements guide. Please contact your librarian with any questions about open access publishing.
Explore the Library’s refreshed research space
Have you heard the news? The Library has recently refreshed its online content for our research community.
This work was driven by extensive user research as part of our commitment to support Deakin researchers and graduate researchers with intuitive, accessible and up-to-date digital tools.
As part of this work, we have:
- updated the research space on the Library website, making it clearer and more reflective of the Library’s current service offerings
- improved content consistency and alignment across platforms
- improved discoverability of and access to key platforms such as Where Should I Publish, Elements, Research Data Planner and more
- built a research hub which acts as a one-stop-shop for all of our research help guides
- created new or uplifted existing help guides on a range of topics.
Our online content aligns with the service areas the Library offers to the Deakin research community:
- Expert searching
- Research data management
- Copyright for research
- Publishing and open access
- Managing your research outputs
- Research metrics
We’re not finished yet – two new-look help guides will be launched in the coming weeks on the topics of research data management and publishing, and open access.
Thank you to our research community, who engaged in this process by completing online surveys and testing activities. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact your librarian.
New EBSCOhost user interface (UI) goes live 16 June
EBSCOhost, the platform we use to access many of our databases at Deakin, is getting a new user interface (UI) on 16 June. This update, inspired by user research and feedback, will bring a fresh look and new functionality. It will impact databases, including:
- CINAHL
- APA PsycINFO
- ERIC
- Business Source Complete
- Medline Complete
- EBSCOhost e-book collection.
You can preview the new interface here.
What changes should I be aware of?
One of the key features of the new interface is the new user Dashboard, which will replace Folders and Custom Folders. If you have created Custom Folders or have Saved Searches, please follow these instructions to access your work in the new interface.
Where can I find more information?
Please view this Library blog post Coming changes to the EBSCOhost Library Search interface for further information, including a full list of all impacted databases and links to a series of short how-to videos to help you navigate the various functions in the new interface.
Questions?
For more assistance, please contact your librarian.
Hot tip: Engaging with Indigenous knowledges and data
Does your research engage with Indigenous knowledges or data?
The Library’s First Nations Hub brings together key information about Indigenous knowledges for studies, teaching and research. For researchers and graduate researchers, the respectful research section provides valuable guidance, including frameworks for ethical engagement, information about Indigenous research methodologies, guidelines on Indigenous data governance and sovereignty, and advice about citing and referencing Indigenous knowledges and authorship. These tools support the integration of Indigenous perspectives into academic work, fostering a culturally sensitive and ethically sound research environment.
Find out more by visiting the Library’s First Nations Hub.
Event roundup
Our series of graduate researcher workshops is underway, with the following workshops available to book:
Responsible use of genAI in research
Tuesday 17 June, online, 10–11am
Getting your data in order: Put research data management into practice
Tuesday 24 June, online, 10-11.30am
You can also explore previous workshop recordings below.
- Advanced literature searching
- Systematic Literature Searching for Systematic Reviews and other Evidence Syntheses (for Health and SEBE)
- Publishing and Open Access
- Responsible Use of GenAI in Research
All Library events can be discovered on the Library’s What’s On page. Additional professional development for researchers is also available via Deakin eResearch: training and events.
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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.
To access library research services, please contact your librarian or navigate to Research via the library website. Scholarly Services Librarians bring discipline-specific expertise related to the following key areas:
- expert searching
- research data management
- Copyright for research
- publishing and open access
- research outputs stewardship
- research metrics.