Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services
Presented at Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
April 4, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
The main challenges facing universities and authors in moving to OA for journal articles are achieving compliance, managing costs, and realising the benefits of OA. This session will outline Jisc services that help, from submission of an article, through acceptance, to publication and use. It will show how these services build on existing infrastructure, where possible, to provide a solution that, while tailored to UK circumstances, is more widely applicable.
Presentation given at the University of Huddersfield on 22 June 2016 as part of the Consortium Librarians' Day, attended by FE librarians supporting HE in FE.
Discusses the opportunities presented by open academic content for study, learning & teaching, and software use. Also suggests some useful "open" resources for CPD.
The session will start with questions like: why should research funders foster open access? What are the goals of switching to an open, transparent system for scholarly publishing? The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) researcher-oriented perspective on the ‘open’ paradigm and the Dutch Research Foundation’s (NWO) open access requirements will be depicted as national examples. Finally, the session will elaborate on recent international trends and developments regarding the need to better align policies, the attempts to invest already available resources for transitioning towards open access, and the growing awareness that a dedicated infrastructure is needed in order to implement any open access policy.
Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services
Presented at Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
April 4, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
The main challenges facing universities and authors in moving to OA for journal articles are achieving compliance, managing costs, and realising the benefits of OA. This session will outline Jisc services that help, from submission of an article, through acceptance, to publication and use. It will show how these services build on existing infrastructure, where possible, to provide a solution that, while tailored to UK circumstances, is more widely applicable.
Presentation given at the University of Huddersfield on 22 June 2016 as part of the Consortium Librarians' Day, attended by FE librarians supporting HE in FE.
Discusses the opportunities presented by open academic content for study, learning & teaching, and software use. Also suggests some useful "open" resources for CPD.
The session will start with questions like: why should research funders foster open access? What are the goals of switching to an open, transparent system for scholarly publishing? The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) researcher-oriented perspective on the ‘open’ paradigm and the Dutch Research Foundation’s (NWO) open access requirements will be depicted as national examples. Finally, the session will elaborate on recent international trends and developments regarding the need to better align policies, the attempts to invest already available resources for transitioning towards open access, and the growing awareness that a dedicated infrastructure is needed in order to implement any open access policy.
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Supporting authors - the library's role in research supportAlison McNab
Lightning talk from the UKSG Forum 2015 (18 November 2015) http://www.uksg.org/event/forum2015 .
As part of a panel on "Supporting authors from an HEI perspective" Alison McNab and Laurian Williamson considered the challenges and opportunities for a library service to support research impact at a research-intensive university.
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
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strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
This presentation was given as a part of the NISO Standards Update session at ALA Annual Meeting 2016. The session was scheduled for Sunday, June 26, and the presenter was Diane Hillman of Metadata Management Associates.
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Collection Management and GreenGlass at UCD LibraryUCD Library
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Collection development is big business and how academic libraries decide to invest in content is radically changing. This is being driven as much by new approaches to organisational design, relationship management, and data insight in universities as by changes to business models and technology in scholarly publishing and the supply chain. Based on recent experience at Edinburgh, Manchester and Northumbria, this participatory session will explore new strategies for collection development, and specifically address challenges and opportunities faced by libraries that have moved or are transitioning from traditional subject librarian roles.
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The Jisc-led National Monograph Strategy (NMS) roadmap set out a number of recommendations, including the design and implementation of a National Monograph Knowledgebase (a ‘Monobase’) as core infrastructure for finding and managing print and digital monographs. This session will report on progress towards establishing that Knowledgebase, set out forward plans, and invite the breakout attendees to discuss ideal outcomes and give their own perspectives on the work.
Supporting authors - the library's role in research supportAlison McNab
Lightning talk from the UKSG Forum 2015 (18 November 2015) http://www.uksg.org/event/forum2015 .
As part of a panel on "Supporting authors from an HEI perspective" Alison McNab and Laurian Williamson considered the challenges and opportunities for a library service to support research impact at a research-intensive university.
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
This presentation was given as a part of the NISO Standards Update session at ALA Annual Meeting 2016. The session was scheduled for Sunday, June 26, and the presenter was Diane Hillman of Metadata Management Associates.
What are the key drivers behind the dramatic growth in library-based publishing? This session explores differences and similarities through three case studies from different countries: Sweden, the UK and the USA. The presenters will describe the forces that are changing the roles of their parent libraries and show how these are also shaping the nature of their publishing programmes. They will also discuss some of the opportunities they see for the future of libraries as publishers and the challenges these new entrants are encountering.
Collection Management and GreenGlass at UCD LibraryUCD Library
Presentation given by UCD Library's Collections Support Librarian Catherine Ryan at 'Collection Management: Sharing Experiences' Joint Seminar organised by CONUL Collections and CONUL Training and Development, 24th October, 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
Collection development is big business and how academic libraries decide to invest in content is radically changing. This is being driven as much by new approaches to organisational design, relationship management, and data insight in universities as by changes to business models and technology in scholarly publishing and the supply chain. Based on recent experience at Edinburgh, Manchester and Northumbria, this participatory session will explore new strategies for collection development, and specifically address challenges and opportunities faced by libraries that have moved or are transitioning from traditional subject librarian roles.
This presentation was provided by Nancy Davenport of American University during the NISO event, "The Library of the Future: Inside & Out", held on December 12, 2018.
"I'm not a scientist, I don't have any research data": Managing arts and humanities data. Presented at the Research Data Network workshop, St Andrews, 30 Nov 2016
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Open Science, Open Data: towards a new transparent and reproducible ecosystemLIBER Europe
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As a library membership organization, LIBER works on addressing Open Science barriers. Standardisation of file formats can really help in overcoming some of these barriers: it enables us to process and preserve data in a controlled way, it helps ensure that outputs are really open and accessible in the long term and it improves interoperability of new tools and services. Making sure data is stored in a controlled way and can be (re) used today and in the future is an important element in Open Science. We see this as not only a technical challenge but also a social one: awareness, trust and community building is needed in order to ensure uptake of these standards. Libraries therefore have a valuable role to play in the development of good research data management throughout all phases of the Open Data lifecycle.
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1. An Embedded Repository:
the Enlighten experience
• William J Nixon
• Digital Library Development Manager
• 3ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Acesso Aberto
• Lisboa
• 2 October 2012
2. Glasgow, Scotland and Open Access
• 14 Universities
• Scottish OA Declaration - 2004
– ‘We believe that the interests of
Scotland will be best served by
the rapid adoption of open
access to scientific and research
literature.’
• Range of Repositories
– EPrints
– DSpace
Digital Commons
3. University of Glasgow
• Founded in 1451
• 2nd oldest University in Scotland (4th
UK)
• 6,000+ Staff
– 2000 Researchers
• 25,000 Students
– 16,000 Undergraduates
– 5,000 Postgraduates
– 5,000 Adult learners
• In the top 1% of universities in the
world
• In the UK's top 10 earners for
research
• Repository since 2001
• Publications Policy 2008
4. Institutional Drivers for Open Access
• Research Funders
– The Wellcome Trust: “supports unrestricted access to the published output of
research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to
be encouraged wherever possible. Specifically, the Wellcome Trust: expects
authors of research papers to maximise the opportunities to make their results
available for free”
– Research Councils UK: “Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded
research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation
and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable”
• Visibility and Impact
– Some studies have shown a citation advantage for those articles which are
freely accessible
• Management information
– Knowing what your researchers are doing!
6. Budapest Open Access Initiative - 10 Years
"An old tradition and a new technology have converged to
make possible an unprecedented public good."
7. Embedding (and integrating) is about…
• Being stitched into the fabric of the institution
– Culturally, Technically ,Holistically
• Adding Value [for the]
– Researcher, Funder(s), Institution , UK Plc
• Re-use
– REF, Research Profiles, Interoperability, crosswalks and metadata schema
• Reducing Duplication
– Ingest, workflows, reporting
• Exploiting new opportunities
– Data mining, business intelligence, KPI’s, Analytics, “stickiness”, visibility
8. An Embedded Week
• Academic staff
• Departmental administrators
• Enlighten Team
• IT Services
• Corporate Communications
• Research and Enterprise
• Human Resources
9. Silos are the past…
Photo by docsearls on Flickr - used under a Creative Commons licence
17. Our Embedded Journey 2002-2012
• JISC ‘DAEDALUS’, ‘Enrich’ and ‘Enquire’ projects
• Information Environment Programme 2009-11 (Inf11)
• Embedding Enlighten alongside other University systems
• Enabling sign-on with institutional ID (GUID)
• Managing author disambiguation
• Linking publications to funder data from Research System
• Feeding institutional research profile pages
• Piloting the collection of output, impact and esteem data
via the repository
• Delivering national assessment functionality
20. Enlighten: Measures of Success
• Positive reactions and support from University
management, academic staff and Heads of Department
for Enlighten (“How” not “Why”)
• Continued growth in records (52K+ )
• Continued growth in downloads (>165K in 2011)
• Embedded in University’s preparation for national
research assessment (REF) exercise
• A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for International
Excellence in Research within University’s strategy
• Publications Policy is a key platform for realising the
advantages of Open Access and its impact
21. Embedding is a journey not a destination…
• Advocacy, advocacy, advocacy
– Repeat your message to management and academic colleagues
• Relationships
– Build and maintain good relationships with key people in the University and
gain their support – and demonstrate value
• Different needs
– Respect and accommodate different disciplines and their distinct academic
requirements
• External influences
– Use the work and decisions made by other institutions/funders to influence
local change
• Systems and processes
– Understand the research management requirements of the University and
align with them e.g. Performance Review
22. Find Out More
• Enlighten and our Publications Policy
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/enlighten/publicationspolicy
• E-mail: william.nixon@glasgow.ac.uk
Twitter @williamjnixon
• Blogs
http://enlightenrepository.wordpress.com
http://researchoutcomes.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/enlightenpapers
Editor's Notes
Delighted to be here strands discovery, deposit, An embedded repository service is one that has been integrated with other institutional services and processes such as research management, library and learning services – JISC Call, 10/2010 This programme helps to address the gap between development and deployment, embedding isn't an activity which just happens overnight Research repository
Scotland is a small country of 6 million people, education is very important in Scotland and we have 14 universities. In 2004, the Universities adopted an Open Access declaration because "We believe that the interests of Scotland will be best served by the rapid adoption of open access to scientific and research literature.' This declaration, which all the universities signed up to committed them to set-up repositories and where practical mandate the deposit of research material. There is a mix of repositories in Scotland and they use the EPrints, DSpace and other software, such as Digital Commons.
Research and the REF is very important to us and Enlighten is a core component of this work, particularly focussing on REF2 publications.
These are arguments many of you will have heard before, but have been very important in taking forward the OA debate at Glasgow. Research Funders Compliance with Researcher funder requirements on Open Access. We were one of the recipients of a letter from the Wellcome Trust about low levels of compliance with their mandate – WT is a major funder for Glasgow and their opinions count. Very important we can demonstrate this compliance. Visibility and Impact Studies have indicated that the more openly available publications are, the more likely they are to be cited. Therefore putting publications in an institutional repository where the data will be harvested by Google and others makes absolute institutional sense. Some parts of GU have managed their publications well, they don’t necessarily like a central solution, but it’s hard to deny that publications in Enlighten get more hits and appear higher in Google searches than publications on static web pages. Enlighten automatically creates rich metadata Management Information Now that we’re putting together the University’s publication record for the past 9 years (our starting for a comprehensive publications database is 2001) it’s generating a lot of interest across the University. Our VP Research regularly looks at Enlighten and can see at a glance who has publications in there and who doesn’t and will ask why they don’t. Also interest in modelling the data in Enlighten against journal rankings such as that put together by the Australian Research Council.
This is our University Publications Policy, introduced to Senate in June 2008, it has two key objectives, to raise the profile of the university's research and to help us to manage research publications. The policy (it is a mandate but we tend not to use that term) asks that staff: deposit a copy of their paper (where copyright permits) provide details of the publication ensure the University is in the address for correspondence (important for citation counts and database searches)
In talking about repositories it is important to set them in the context of Open Access and the need to make research freely available. This year, Feb 14th was the 10th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Melissa Hagemann from the OSI in a blog post noted, that after 10 years: Today, Open Access is at the forefront of discussions about scholarly communications in the digital age. Open Access is taught in universities, debated in Parliaments, embraced and opposed by publishers, and most importantly, mandated by over 300 research funders and institutions, including the largest funder of research in the world, the U.S. National Institutes of Health. This rise to prominence is all the more remarkable when considering how ambitious the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was, as it sought to change an $8 billion industry. Few beyond the initial BOAI participants shared the vision that change was possible". There is still work to be done but meetings like today are a result of the BOAI, new challenges are ahead, we must continue to engage funding bodies, our academics and our senior management. There are also new opportunities, with new publishing models and links with research data.
Monday HR re P&DR, Research re: REF Academic colleague about coverage and using Enlighten to promote their work Tuesday IT Services - work adding additional user data to Enlighten Weds IT Services colleague planning for updates and looking at stats Professor in one of our Colleges about publications and improving open access Enlighten Team - 2011 annual report and reviewing coverage by college Thurs Export of data for RCUK Research Outcomes Systems Demo of updated REF plugin to College Research Staff Running through all of the week is the Enlighten's ongoing engagement with academic staff and publishers
What do I mean by embedded? Well, An embedded repository service is one that has been integrated with other institutional services and processes such as research management, library and learning services – JISC Call, 10/2010 In this image we can see the various connections made by our repository, we did this in a number of ways: Embedding Enlighten alongside other University systems Enabling sign-on with institutional ID (GUID) Managing author identities Linking publications to funder data from Research System Feeding institutional research profile pages Piloting the collection of output, impact and esteem data via the repository
Enlighten has been added as a link for SharePoint, once logged into SP, users can then directly access their Enlighten home page and deposit records. EPrints have been working with Microsoft to enable the deposit of publications from SP into EPrints but we don't yet have this in place.
We have mandated the deposit of theses since 2007 Students can choose a range of embargos if they do not want their thesis made publicly available, but on the whole they choose not to do this. There are over 2000 theses now freely available and in many cases they get more downloads than out research outputs.
We have also found that when the repository is no longer a silo it is asked to do other things for the University, and is aligned with the needs and strategy of the university - sometimes it feels a bit like juggling though with many different agendas (the price of success!) These activities include: Providing freely available research outputs (Open Access) Acting as a publications database A tool for Research Assessment, in the UK we will have a big Research Assessment Exercises (called REF) next year Providing new business intelligence opportunities - where do your academic colleagues publish, is there an overlap with the journals the library subscribes too?