2. 2
Partnerships within Library Services
At King’s 4 departments
• Information resources
• Customer Services
• Research & Learning Liaison
• Archives & Information Management
3.
4. 4
Information Resources
• Acquisition
– Physical
– electronic
• Management of electronic resources
• Collection review
Digital Assets
• New team – role – split between
– managing Digital Course Packs for taught courses
– managing publications in institutional repository
– Administering Open Access funds
5. 5
Archives & Information Management
• Foyle Special Collections Library
• Unique historical resources – closed access but
access by arrangement
• Digitisation
projects
• Data
management
6. 6
Training & support for Information retrieval
and management
• RLL team – training for staff and research students
• Updates for staff on new resources
• Expert help for literature reviews – including
systematic reviews In Health and Social Sciences
• Bibliographic management software
• Data management (Archives & Information Mngmnt)
• All Library and ITS research support training is
organised by a member of the RLL team in liaison
with the Graduate School
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Finding and applying for Funding
• LS currently administers Research Professional
database
• Information specialists can provide one to one help
with searching the database and setting up alerts
• IM team provides advice on data management
plans – now an essential part for most funding bids
• Advice on whether of not OA publication costs need
to be included in funding bids
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Disseminating research
• Publishing - help for early career researchers
– Choosing the journal – impact factors, tips and tricks
• Citation policy – and damage limitation exercises with
WoS and Scopus
• Referencing – bib software and plagiarism –
Dissertation clinics
• Theses – Word - Long documents for Theses
not just technical software course
• Posters – PowerPoint for Posters course – liaison
with Graduate School
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OpenAccess
• Drafted policy for College
• Open access publishing (Wellcome, RCUK and
others) – Gold –
Digital assets team administer the funds
• Open access in repositories – Green
• Copyright agreements – addenda
• Creative commons licences
• Theses – etheses in the new repository
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Support for the RAE, REF – CRIS
• RAE – Research Gateway – home grown – IT
partnership
• Pure – IT and Research Directorate
• Digital Assets team in Information resources
– importing Web of Science/Scopus records
– Proactively encouraging Open Access
– Quality assurance
• Information specialists – supporting academics one
to one
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Evaluating research - bibliometrics
• Attended CWTS course in Leiden
• Advice on our webpages
• ‘Citation counts’ training course
• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• InCites – percentile in subject area useful for
selecting REF outputs
• Scopus integration with Pure
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External liaison with data providers
• Development partner with Thomson Reuters on
InCites
• JIBS member of WOSEC – in future – Scopus
Enhancement group too (or instead)
• Dialogue with data providers about affiliation/address
issues (University Rankings)
• Citation and acknowledgement of funders policy for
the College
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Data management and archiving
• New – Data management policy
• Information Management team
• Advice provided on web pages – Information
management (currently) will be amalgamated
• Digital archiving
• ODM – Optimising Data Management
– one aspect – supporting the improvement of the
system that records the College School and
departmental hierarchy.