On November 21st 2014 at the Tufts University Medford campus and November 25th 2014 at the campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, the BLC and Digital Science hosted a workshop focused on better understanding the research information management landscape. Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst described ways in which the library at UMass Amherst has been key in developing services to address research management issues and ways in which they have worked to establish partnerships and strong relationships with faculty and other stakeholders across the university.

1. Hands Across the University:
Partnering to Advance
Scholarly Communication
University of Massachusetts Medical School
November 25, 2014
Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication &
Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst

2. Topics To Cover
§ Scholarly Communication
• ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst
• Services
§ Research Data Management
• Funder Policies
• Data Information Literacy and DMPs
§ Teaching and Learning
• Open Education
§ Other Opportunities

3. Scholarly Communication
§ Institutional Digital Repositories
• Unified open access to and preservation of the
electronic collections of works of members of the
institution’s community
§ Discipline Repositories
§ Open Access Journals
• Journals available at no cost to end user
• May or not be refereed
• Typically available in electronic format
§ Open Science and Open Data
§ Open Education

4. Source: Kennan, Mary Anne and Karlheinz Kautz. Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Searching for Understanding of an
Emerging IS Phenomenon, 2007, p.8 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/105430

5. Transforming Librarian Roles
§ Nexus of communication
§ Create strategic partnerships
§ Promote Open Access initiatives
§ Curate digital materials
§ Provide expertise on metadata, author rights,
usage rights, licensing
§ Provide data management services
§ Provide library publishing services
§ Expand liaison role with faculty
§ Provide education and workshops
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7. Research Data Management
§ Funder requirements / policies
• National Institutes of Health 2008
• Gates Foundation last week
§ Data management plans
§ Data services
• Linked open data
• Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
• ORCID
• Altmetrics

8. Teaching & Learning
§ Information literacy
• Competencies
• Knowledge management
§ Open Education Initiative
• Partnerships
• Incentives
• Results

9. Other Opportunities
§ Office of Research
• Research in Action Grants
• Enterprise-level Research Analytics
• Faculty Profiles
§ Graduate School
• ETDs
• Workshops
• Office Hours
§ University
• Faculty Senate
• Virtual Bookstore

10. Questions/Discussion
Contact Information
Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
mbillings@library.umass.edu