by Rob Penfold | Jul 9, 2025 | Events
📰 Description
This session will demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance grant writing. Attendees will discover techniques to leverage AI for developing ideas, creating initial proposal drafts, enhancing content quality by improving clarity and aligning language with funder priorities, and developing supplemental documents such as letter of support, budget development. We will also briefly discuss challenges and responsible use of AI for grant writing.
Leila is a senior research librarian and a published researcher with over twenty years work experience in academic and health libraries. Leila has extensive knowledge and deep understanding of research paradigm and methodology, research process, dissemination, and implementation. During her career, Leila has been supporting research and teaching needs of staff and students from established researchers to HDR students. She has contributed to large scale research projects such as national level public health research, international polices, clinical guidelines developments and systematic reviews as a consultant and co-author. Leila supports researchers’ needs through research life cycle and provides consultation and assistance with literature reviews, grant applications, data management planning, scholarly publishing and open access, research promotion and impact assessment. As part of her current role, Leila is a scholarly communication advisor for Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) supporting research staff and faculty conjoints in conducting and publishing research projects.
🗓️ When
Wednesday 6 August 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm (AEST)
🌍 Where
Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.
This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
💲 Cost
ALIA Members – Free
Non-Members – $22. Another reason to consider HLA Membership
📝 Register
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by Rob Penfold | Jul 9, 2025 | Events
📰 Description
Catchii is a web-based software for systematic review screening, developed here in Australia. It supports all stages of the screening process, from duplicate removal to data extraction, and includes features such as multi-user collaboration, advanced keyword highlighting and AI-assisted screening. Most importantly, Catchii is completely free to use, offering a viable alternative to paid tools while remaining comparable in functionality. This session will present Catchii’s features and demonstrate its use in systematic reviews. For more information: https://catchii.org
🗓️ When
Wednesday 23/7/25
1:00pm – 2:00pm AEST
🌍 Where
Online webinar Zoom – a link will be sent the day prior.
This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
💲 Cost
ALIA Members – Free. Another reason to consider HLA Membership
Non-Members – $22
📝 Register
Register | Additional Information
by Rob Penfold | Jun 23, 2025 | News
Submissions are open for the HLA/Telstra Health Digital Health Innovation Award
Submit your application using the online form by 30 June 2025.
The HLA/Telstra Health Digital Health Innovation Award is funded by Telstra Health and maintained by the ALIA Health Libraries Australia group.
If your library has introduced an innovative technology solution, we invite you to share your great idea with us, receive accolades and $3,000 to implement or further your idea.
The Award focuses on innovation projects in health care information delivery with practical outcomes. The submission must fall into one of the following categories:
- The innovation is proposed (and the funds will be used to implement the innovation)
- The innovation has already been achieved (and the funds will be used to further develop the innovation, or for the professional development of the team)
For information and more details visit: HLA/Telstra Health Digital Health Innovation Award – ALIA
Many thanks to Telstra Health for their ongoing support. This award is now entering its 17th year!
The award will be presented at the ALIA HLA Conference in Sydney in August.
by Rob Penfold | May 30, 2025 | Events
We are pleased to let you know that registrations are now open for Research Support Community Day 2025, with the event program available to view here.
Research Support Community Day continues to remain a free, annual event that offers professional development and training for anyone involved in providing research support and related services. It is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, share ideas, and build your professional network. Holding the event online across 3 days ensures we can welcome participants and presenters from a range of Australasian and New Zealand time zones.
Find out more about our previous events and speakers from the Research Community Day YouTube channel.
Once again, we are grateful to Sage Publishing Asia-Pacific & Central Asia for their continued sponsorship of the event.
With the registration, there is an option to not attend but receive access to the recordings
👉 Note – this is not an HLA event
✅ A few presentations of possible interest:
- Systematic review Fun-damentals
- Full Text Seeker: A tool to assist with systematic reviews
- Safeguarding scholarly integrity: A novel approach to detecting predatory journals
- Generative AI training: Opt in or opt out?
by Rob Penfold | Apr 22, 2025 | Events
Note – this is not an HLA Event
Registrants will be able to view recordings / slides after the event (as times involved are not Australian friendly)
More details available here
This course provides a comprehensive guide to peer reviewing search strategies, essential for improving the quality and accuracy of research findings across multiple disciplines. Participants will gain valuable skills in evaluating and optimizing search methodologies, contributing to more robust and credible research outcomes.
The course will cover key topics and learning objectives, which include:
- Understanding the purpose of the peer review process.
- Learning about peer review guidelines: the PRESS checklist.
- Identifying common pitfalls and challenges in search strategy structure.
- Learning how to check the search terms within search strategies.
- Learning how to check the search syntax within search strategies.
- Understanding the best use of limiting options within search strategies.
- Critiquing the use of search filters within search strategies.
- Learning how to check translations of search strategies (across databases and interfaces).
- Learning about the practicalities of peer review: time taken, approach, writeup, keeping up to date.
An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of all seminars. For European students, our seminars offer ECTS Equivalent points, which is indicated on the certificate of completion that is provided at the conclusion of each seminar (see the Instats FAQ for details).
The fee for the course (over 2 half-days) is 351 AUD (i.e. 180 GBP, 208 EUR, 236 USD or 1,729 CNY).
There are reductions on the above prices for students and also for those who are based at partner institutions to Instats – see link above.
Course presenters:
Julie Glanville, Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval, Glanville.Info
Carol Lefebvre, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates Ltd.
For further details, including the course descriptions, and to register, please see the link above.
Recordings and materials (including slides) will be available online, to those registered for the course, for 30 days after the course, in case you would prefer to attend asynchronously, or you would like to go back and revisit the course content after the course concludes. An online seminar chat forum will also be monitored by us for 30 days after the seminar concludes, so that you can ask questions related to seminar content outside of the live seminar sessions.
Please feel free to contact us for further details about this course, or to discuss tailor-made options for your workplace.
