Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutes with respect to
data management training and support.
Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projectsto serve the long tail of research data.
Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations.
Conclusions:Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
Presentation and workshop notes from session on how to apply the Researcher Development Framework to library and information service provision for research/e support
Uses case studies of different types of researchers.
Workshop notes integrated into the presentation
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
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.
Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutes with respect to
data management training and support.
Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projectsto serve the long tail of research data.
Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations.
Conclusions:Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
Presentation and workshop notes from session on how to apply the Researcher Development Framework to library and information service provision for research/e support
Uses case studies of different types of researchers.
Workshop notes integrated into the presentation
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
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.
RDAP 16 Lightning: Data Practices and Perspectives of Atmospheric and Enginee...ASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Lightning Rounds (Thursday, May 5)
Presenter:
Christie Wiley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This presentation was provided by Kristin Lee of Tufts University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
RDAP14: Building a data management and curation program on a shoestring budgetASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
Margaret Henderson
Director, Research Data Management
Virginia Commonwealth University
Support When It Counts - library roles in public access to federally-funded r...Hilary Davis
Charleston Conference 2013
November 8, 2013
Kristine M. Alpi, Director, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, kmalpi@ncsu.edu
William M. Cross, Director, Copyright and Digital Scholarship, NCSU Libraries, wmcross@ncsu.edu
Hilary M. Davis, Interim Head, Collection Management & Director of Research Data Services, NCSU Libraries, hmdavis4@ncsu.edu
In November 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it would begin enforcing its earlier April 2008 public access mandate to NIH-funded research by delaying processing of investigators’ grants. In response, the NCSU Libraries offered to assist the university’s sponsored research office in supporting NC State researchers who had publications stemming from NIH funding and had not achieved compliance. Since the 2008 NIH mandate, over 1000 articles based on NIH-funding have been published by NC State across research areas including veterinary medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, textiles, design, math and statistics. Many were published in journals which did not automatically deposit papers to meet NIH requirements. Although familiar with biomedical literature, author agreements and open access, we did not fully grasp the complex web of investigator, author, publisher, institution and funder relations involved in this mandate until we were deeply engaged in the process and gained access to the compliance monitoring data.
In this paper, we will discuss the costs and benefits of library support for authors needing to attain compliance with an eye toward how this support may be scaled up if other federal funding agencies follow suit. We will share practical strategies for supporting compliance efforts for individual researchers and at the campus-wide level, as well as training newly-funded researchers to facilitate future compliance. We discuss the advantages of leveraging existing relationships with publishers to help their researchers, strategies for getting involved in compliance support, and insights on how to skill-up and scale-up when engaging in this part of the research process.
RDAP 16: Building the Research Data Community of PracticeASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Presenters:
Sherry Lake, University of Virginia
Brianna Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Regina Raboin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Andrew Johnson, University of Colorado
Brian Westra, University of Oregon
Panel lead:
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Washington University in St. Louis
Serach, Serendipity & the Researcher ExperienceNASIG
Presenter: Lettie Conrad, Executive Program Manager, Discovery & Product Analysis, SAGE Publishing
When considering academic researchers’ information-seeking and retrieval needs, we often focus on search – optimizing for search, Google-like search for libraries, user preferences for one-box quick-search tools, and so on. But what about unplanned instances of discovery? Are new technologies, such as text mining and natural language processing, enabling new pathways that lead researchers to relevant material, perhaps even leading to surprising new connections across disciplines? Conversely, with the prevalence of satisficing, does serendipity even play a role when searching for information about a scholarly topic?_x000D_
Through a study of undergraduate students and their faculty members, as well as a survey of publisher and website offerings, this talk will summarize common user pathways and how today’s students and faculty use content recommendation tools with recommendations for how libraries and the scholarly communications community might respond.
Open Access in the World of Scholarly Journals: creation and discoveryNASIG
Access to scholarly journals produced by commercial publishers is becoming more and more expensive, and open access to publicly-funded research results is increasingly mandated by funding bodies. In response to these and other motivators, the open access scholarly journal movement is growing. In the Canadian context, open access publishing has begun to get more traction in response to these factors, and in spite of some resistance by researchers. University and college libraries are getting involved in both the promotion and the creation of open access content. An example of this is the University of Lethbridge Journal Incubator, which publishes three open access journals from the University Library. We will explore some of the benefits and drawbacks of open access in scholarly communications.
One model of open access is the hybrid journal, which causes particular challenges for discovery and access. With access restricted at the article, rather than the journal level, it's surprisingly hard to get library users to OA content through catalogs, link resolvers, or even discovery tools. Chris will investigate some of the roadblocks and consult with publishers, librarians, and service providers to see what is currently being done to overcome this challenge. Are readers currently getting to OA content in hybrid journals through library systems and sites? Is the NISO License and Access Indicators Recommended Practice likely to change current practices? How are discovery tool vendors responding to this challenge? Can service providers outside of the traditional library content and software sector have an impact? After investigating all of these angles Chris will try to determine if there is a likely way forward and share what attendees can do to improve access to Hybrid OA journals in the short and long term.
Sandra Cowan is the liaison librarian for English, Modern Languages, Religious Studies and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She has research interests in digital humanities, scholarly communications, and research methods of creative workers.
Chris Bulock is the Electronic Resources Librarian at California State University Northridge. His research has focused on perpetual access, e-resource evaluation, and the effect of Open Access on collection development and e-resource management. He writes a column on OA issues in the Serials Review, and he is an incoming NASIG Member at Large.
February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
Heidi Imker, Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This presentation was provided by Kenning Arlitsch of Montana State University during a NISO Webinar entitled "Supporting Research on Your Campus", held on May 4, 2016
Figshare for institutions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In May 2015 the EPSRC policy framework on research data came into effect. Salford University partnered with figshare to not only answer the mandate but to enhance the visibility of the research generated at the institution. All public facing research outputs are freely available to the wider public at salford.figshare.com.
Learn more about University of Salford’s approach and get a high level overview of the latest figshare functionality.
This presentation was provided by Kristi Holmes of Northwestern University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
RDAP14 Poster: Samantha Guss Data management planning and responsible conduct...ASIS&T
Data management planning and responsible conduct of research: a pilot educational partnership at NYU
Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
March 26-28, 2014
San Diego, CA
Samantha Guss, New York University
Shaping Expectations: Defining and Refining the Role of Technical Services in...NASIG
From trial to implementation, technical services staff play an important role in shaping awareness of, and expectations for, new resources. Internally, technical services staff provide information and instruction to public services staff. Externally, they influence how new resources are integrated into the library website and other platforms. With appropriate “message control,” technical services staff can positively influence awareness of new resources while keeping everyone’s expectations in check.
During fall 2015, technical services staff at Georgia Southern University adopted a protocol for new resource rollouts that explicitly times and structures internal and external communications to ensure that all library staff are ready to support new resources as they go live. This protocol focuses on providing appropriate lead-time notifications to public services staff and “training the trainers” first, prior to releasing any external communications. Furthermore, this protocol integrates with activities of the library’s promotion committee, supporting smooth transition to public services promotion of new resources.
During this session, presenters will discuss this protocol in detail, with special emphasis on timing of internal and external communications, the importance of providing sufficient staff training and support materials early on, and the importance of maintaining objectivity and accuracy in all rollout communications and assets. Presenters will share protocol planning tools and worksheets, describe how these are integrated into implementation workflows, and engage participants in discussion about the role of technical services in new resource rollouts.
Presenters:
Jeff Mortimore & Debra Skinner
Zach S. Henderson Library
Georgia Southern University
Tufts Tisch Library's Data Services GroupDonna Kafel
Presentation by Regina Raboin, Data Management Services Group Coordinator and Science Librarian at Tufts University's Tisch Library about Tisch Library's data services initiatives
Kara Jones (University of Bath) "Getting there from here: changes for academi...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
RDAP 16 Lightning: Data Practices and Perspectives of Atmospheric and Enginee...ASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Lightning Rounds (Thursday, May 5)
Presenter:
Christie Wiley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This presentation was provided by Kristin Lee of Tufts University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
RDAP14: Building a data management and curation program on a shoestring budgetASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
Margaret Henderson
Director, Research Data Management
Virginia Commonwealth University
Support When It Counts - library roles in public access to federally-funded r...Hilary Davis
Charleston Conference 2013
November 8, 2013
Kristine M. Alpi, Director, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, kmalpi@ncsu.edu
William M. Cross, Director, Copyright and Digital Scholarship, NCSU Libraries, wmcross@ncsu.edu
Hilary M. Davis, Interim Head, Collection Management & Director of Research Data Services, NCSU Libraries, hmdavis4@ncsu.edu
In November 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it would begin enforcing its earlier April 2008 public access mandate to NIH-funded research by delaying processing of investigators’ grants. In response, the NCSU Libraries offered to assist the university’s sponsored research office in supporting NC State researchers who had publications stemming from NIH funding and had not achieved compliance. Since the 2008 NIH mandate, over 1000 articles based on NIH-funding have been published by NC State across research areas including veterinary medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, textiles, design, math and statistics. Many were published in journals which did not automatically deposit papers to meet NIH requirements. Although familiar with biomedical literature, author agreements and open access, we did not fully grasp the complex web of investigator, author, publisher, institution and funder relations involved in this mandate until we were deeply engaged in the process and gained access to the compliance monitoring data.
In this paper, we will discuss the costs and benefits of library support for authors needing to attain compliance with an eye toward how this support may be scaled up if other federal funding agencies follow suit. We will share practical strategies for supporting compliance efforts for individual researchers and at the campus-wide level, as well as training newly-funded researchers to facilitate future compliance. We discuss the advantages of leveraging existing relationships with publishers to help their researchers, strategies for getting involved in compliance support, and insights on how to skill-up and scale-up when engaging in this part of the research process.
RDAP 16: Building the Research Data Community of PracticeASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Presenters:
Sherry Lake, University of Virginia
Brianna Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Regina Raboin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Andrew Johnson, University of Colorado
Brian Westra, University of Oregon
Panel lead:
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Washington University in St. Louis
Serach, Serendipity & the Researcher ExperienceNASIG
Presenter: Lettie Conrad, Executive Program Manager, Discovery & Product Analysis, SAGE Publishing
When considering academic researchers’ information-seeking and retrieval needs, we often focus on search – optimizing for search, Google-like search for libraries, user preferences for one-box quick-search tools, and so on. But what about unplanned instances of discovery? Are new technologies, such as text mining and natural language processing, enabling new pathways that lead researchers to relevant material, perhaps even leading to surprising new connections across disciplines? Conversely, with the prevalence of satisficing, does serendipity even play a role when searching for information about a scholarly topic?_x000D_
Through a study of undergraduate students and their faculty members, as well as a survey of publisher and website offerings, this talk will summarize common user pathways and how today’s students and faculty use content recommendation tools with recommendations for how libraries and the scholarly communications community might respond.
Open Access in the World of Scholarly Journals: creation and discoveryNASIG
Access to scholarly journals produced by commercial publishers is becoming more and more expensive, and open access to publicly-funded research results is increasingly mandated by funding bodies. In response to these and other motivators, the open access scholarly journal movement is growing. In the Canadian context, open access publishing has begun to get more traction in response to these factors, and in spite of some resistance by researchers. University and college libraries are getting involved in both the promotion and the creation of open access content. An example of this is the University of Lethbridge Journal Incubator, which publishes three open access journals from the University Library. We will explore some of the benefits and drawbacks of open access in scholarly communications.
One model of open access is the hybrid journal, which causes particular challenges for discovery and access. With access restricted at the article, rather than the journal level, it's surprisingly hard to get library users to OA content through catalogs, link resolvers, or even discovery tools. Chris will investigate some of the roadblocks and consult with publishers, librarians, and service providers to see what is currently being done to overcome this challenge. Are readers currently getting to OA content in hybrid journals through library systems and sites? Is the NISO License and Access Indicators Recommended Practice likely to change current practices? How are discovery tool vendors responding to this challenge? Can service providers outside of the traditional library content and software sector have an impact? After investigating all of these angles Chris will try to determine if there is a likely way forward and share what attendees can do to improve access to Hybrid OA journals in the short and long term.
Sandra Cowan is the liaison librarian for English, Modern Languages, Religious Studies and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She has research interests in digital humanities, scholarly communications, and research methods of creative workers.
Chris Bulock is the Electronic Resources Librarian at California State University Northridge. His research has focused on perpetual access, e-resource evaluation, and the effect of Open Access on collection development and e-resource management. He writes a column on OA issues in the Serials Review, and he is an incoming NASIG Member at Large.
February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
Heidi Imker, Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This presentation was provided by Kenning Arlitsch of Montana State University during a NISO Webinar entitled "Supporting Research on Your Campus", held on May 4, 2016
Figshare for institutions - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In May 2015 the EPSRC policy framework on research data came into effect. Salford University partnered with figshare to not only answer the mandate but to enhance the visibility of the research generated at the institution. All public facing research outputs are freely available to the wider public at salford.figshare.com.
Learn more about University of Salford’s approach and get a high level overview of the latest figshare functionality.
This presentation was provided by Kristi Holmes of Northwestern University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
RDAP14 Poster: Samantha Guss Data management planning and responsible conduct...ASIS&T
Data management planning and responsible conduct of research: a pilot educational partnership at NYU
Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
March 26-28, 2014
San Diego, CA
Samantha Guss, New York University
Shaping Expectations: Defining and Refining the Role of Technical Services in...NASIG
From trial to implementation, technical services staff play an important role in shaping awareness of, and expectations for, new resources. Internally, technical services staff provide information and instruction to public services staff. Externally, they influence how new resources are integrated into the library website and other platforms. With appropriate “message control,” technical services staff can positively influence awareness of new resources while keeping everyone’s expectations in check.
During fall 2015, technical services staff at Georgia Southern University adopted a protocol for new resource rollouts that explicitly times and structures internal and external communications to ensure that all library staff are ready to support new resources as they go live. This protocol focuses on providing appropriate lead-time notifications to public services staff and “training the trainers” first, prior to releasing any external communications. Furthermore, this protocol integrates with activities of the library’s promotion committee, supporting smooth transition to public services promotion of new resources.
During this session, presenters will discuss this protocol in detail, with special emphasis on timing of internal and external communications, the importance of providing sufficient staff training and support materials early on, and the importance of maintaining objectivity and accuracy in all rollout communications and assets. Presenters will share protocol planning tools and worksheets, describe how these are integrated into implementation workflows, and engage participants in discussion about the role of technical services in new resource rollouts.
Presenters:
Jeff Mortimore & Debra Skinner
Zach S. Henderson Library
Georgia Southern University
Tufts Tisch Library's Data Services GroupDonna Kafel
Presentation by Regina Raboin, Data Management Services Group Coordinator and Science Librarian at Tufts University's Tisch Library about Tisch Library's data services initiatives
Kara Jones (University of Bath) "Getting there from here: changes for academi...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
May 4-7, 2016
Presenters:
Abigail Goben, University of Illinois Chicago
Tina Griffin, University of Illinois Chicago
Sara Scheib, University of Iowa
Scott Martin, University of Michigan
Panel Leads:
Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University
Marina Zhang, University of Iowa
LIBER, Ligue Européenne des Bibliothèques de Recherche, launched its new strategy 2018-2022 in November 2017. This presentation gives an overview about LIBER's vision, strategic directions, steering committee and working groups - existing and to be created in the years to come.
The benefits and challenges of open access: lessons from practice - Helen Bla...Jisc
Led by Helen Blanchett, subject specialist, scholarly communications, Jisc.
With contribution from Andrew Simpson, associate university librarian (procurement and metadata and systems), Portsmouth University.
In this session you’ll hear in this session you’ll hear about the benefits and challenges of open access.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
Andrew Cox and Stephen Pinfield - Research data management in practice: Roles...sconul
SCONUL Conference 20-21 June 2013
Fringe - Research data management in practice: Roles and skills for libraries, with Dr Andrew Cox, Lecturer, Director of Learning and Teaching, University of Sheffield and Dr Stephen Pinfield, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield
Academic Social Networks and Researcher RankingAmanyalsayed
Open science and web scholarly communication
Using Web 2.0 to increase researcher’s ranking
Academic Social Networks (types, services)
Question & Answer service
Sharing your research output through ASN
Researcher measurement (h-index, RG score)
ASN and researchers’ concerns
But Were We Successful: Using Online Asynchronous Focus Groups to Evaluate Li...Andrea Payant
USU launched a program in 2016 to connect researchers seeking federal funding with librarians to assist them with data management. This program assisted over 100 researchers, but was it successful? Our presentation will discuss how we evaluated the success of this program using online asynchronous focus groups (OAFG) in conjunction with a traditional survey. Our cross-institutional research team will share our findings as well as the challenges and successes of using OAFGs to assess library services.
Poster Presentation for 4:am Altmetrics Conference, Toronto ON, CA and National Institutes of Health Bibliometrics and Assessment Conference, Bethesda MD, US
Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovativ...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T., Hartel, J., Kendall, L., Rebmann, K., Rang, T., & Yontz, E. (2018). Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovative strategies. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 9, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovativ...OCLC
Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T., Hartel, J., Kendall, L., Rebmann, K., Rang, T., & Yontz, E. (2018). Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovative strategies. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 9, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
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Emerging roles and collaborations in research support for academic health librarians
1. Title of presentation
Name of presenter
Title of presenter
School / Faculty / Division
xx Month 201x
Emerging roles and collaborations in
research support for academic health
librarians
Sharon Karasmanis & Fiona Murphy
Learning & Research Services
La Trobe University Library
latrobe.edu.au CRICOS Provider 00115M
2. La Trobe’s ‘Future Ready’ research agenda
• Improve research quality
• Identify, develop and implement
strategic research partnerships
• Increase cross–disciplinary research
• Double research income
• Improve student satisfaction as
measured by the Postgraduate
Research Experience Questionnaire
• Derive a high proportion of research
income from Research Focus Areas
• Improve international research-based
ranking
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3. Research at La Trobe University
latrobe.edu.au/research/
• 1,389 researchers: 339 research staff, 1050 teaching & research staff
• 1,700 HDR students
• 32 Research Institutes Centres
• 2 Research Development Parks
• 20 Disciplinary Research Programs
• 5 Research Focus Areas
• Building health Communities; Understanding disease;
Sport exercise and rehabilitation; Securing food, water and
the environment; and Transforming human societies
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4. Faculty Librarians
and La Trobe’s
research agenda:
What do partnerships with researchers
look like?
What is the nature of our contribution to
University research goals?
How do we make our expertise and
contribution more visible?
How are our roles emerging to meet this
need?
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5. “Emerging Roles” - themes from the literature
• “The professions’ own status and future, yet it is hard to grasp the overall pattern of
change” (Cox & Corrall, 2013)
• Libraries need to be “better positioned and more congruously aligned with
institutional priorities” (Allee, et al., 2014)
• Move away from the “holy trinity of reference, instruction and collection
development” (Williams, 2009)
• “No one liaison can do it all” (Kenny, 2014)
• Functional specialists as librarians ”who do not have liaison assignments to specific
academic departments but serve as “superliaisons” to other librarians” (Jaguszewski
& Williams, 2013)
• “Engagement-centered model” (Allee, et al., 2014)
• “There is a real conundrum emerging between the traditional liaison role where
productive relationships are cultivated over many years; and the librarians who
transform to the functional specialist model” (Karasmanis & Murphy, 2014)
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7. Emerging roles at La Trobe University Library
• Increased capacity in
expert searching
• Renewed focus on
research metrics and
data management
• Renewed focus on
promotion and
embedding of services
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8. Repackaged services:
Customised Search
Service (CSS)
Research Impact
Service (RIS)
Market Intelligence
Service (MIS)
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10. Customised Search
Service …
…provides advanced
literature searches to
researchers who are
conducting preliminary
literature reviews in
preparation for grant
applications, or working on
funded projects involving
systematic literature
reviews.
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11. LibReST project to develop the service
How can librarians contribute
to the work of researchers
within the Faculty of Health
Sciences, who are:
• conducting preliminary
literature reviews
• preparing grant applications
• working on funded projects
involving literature and
systematic literature reviews
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12. S: Sampling strategy
T: Type of studies
A: Approaches (other than eResources)
R: Range of years
L: Limits
I: Inclusion and exclusions
T: Terms used
E: Electronic sources
Booth, A. (2006). “Brimful of STARLITE”: toward standards for reporting literature
searches. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(4), 421.
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13. LibReST Journal Log
• A Group Journal Log was
used to record the process
of the trial
• Provided a reflection of
what worked and what
could be improved
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14. Customised Search Service Request Form
latrobe.edu.au/library/research-and-grant-support
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16. Search request procedure
• Researcher completes request form
latrobe.edu.au/library/research-and-grant-support
• Consultation to discuss scope of request
• Development of search strategy
• Conduct search in four databases
• Set up database accounts to save searches
• Search results de-duplicated, and emailed in an
EndNote Library
• Search history emailed as a Word document
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17. Checklist
• Meet with researcher, work out scope, databases and search terms
• Book time and add to leave spread sheet
• Conducting the search:
• set up database accounts with naming convention
• save search history using naming convention
• Add search history and/or strategy to Word document
• Export to EndNote using naming convention (and de-duplicate )
• Provide instructions to add link to the full text in EndNote
• Sending search results:
• Email compressed EndNote library
• Include database logins and attach Word doc with search history/strategy
• File documentation in LibGuide (private) and record hours
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18. Customised Search Service by Faculty (2013)
Faculty Number of
searches
Number of hours
spent
Business, Economics &
Law
6 50
Health Sciences 52 425
Humanities, Social
6 88
Sciences & Engineering
Science, Technology &
Engineering
4 35
Interdisciplinary:
Health Sciences/Business
Economics & law
1 53
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19. Responsiveness and
timeliness
“It increased the speed to
complete the literature
review”
- Health Sciences researcher 2014
“Service was fast, thank you”
- Health Sciences researcher 2014
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20. What researchers say
“It gave the research group
confidence that the search was
extensive and comprehensive,
exceeded expectations”
“It was helpful & provided valuable
information regarding the search
strategy for the research project”
- Health Sciences researchers 2014
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22. Online support tools using LibGuides and SlideShare
• Citation Analysis: measure
your research impact
• Where to publish: journal
impact & quality
• Data Management
• Alerting Services
http://latrobe.libguides.com
“I love the Library guides – they’re
fantastic. Just wish more people would
read + digest them”
(Research Education staff, 2014)
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24. SlideShare views embedded within the Research
Support LibGuides since 2013
Title Views
Citation Analysis 2,669
Where to Publish 2,378
Publish or Perish 1,627
Google Scholar Citations 1,074
InCites 694
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25. Research Impact Service includes:
• Online request form:
latrobe.edu.au/library/research-and-grant-support/research-impact/
• Analysis report includes:
• Article impact, journal impact and author Impact
• Further advice on setting up researcher profiles:
• ORCID, Researcher ID, Scopus Author ID
• Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Microsoft Academic
• Altmetrics (alternate metrics)
• Social media tools
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26. Research Impact Service checklist for requests:
• Cross campus working group (5), assign request; block out time and add to
internal leave spreadsheet
• Clarify time frame, confirm publications to include, determine variations in
author name and other affiliated universities
• Conduct the search using the templates and instructions detailed in the RIS
procedures document:
• save reports using naming convention; encrypt with password; request
a member of the group to peer review; save on Library shared drive
• Email report as Word document and include an Appendix which provides
definitions on the metrics used
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27. Procedures
• Author impact:
• Tools used Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar or Publish or Perish
• Record measurements for the entire publishing career
• Create citation report and record results in template
• Journal Impact
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Scopus Journal Analytics, SCImago, Research
Master Online
• Add to the template ranking and impact factor
• Article impact
• Obtain author’s list of articles and conduct the search as above
• Add article references and record total citations for each article
• Record citation counts and source and also include subject database
• Altmetrics impact, researcher advised on ImpactStory or Plum Analytics Account
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29. Researcher feedback:
“Thank you very much indeed for your
efforts in preparing my Research Impact
Report. I am most grateful.” (Social
Work researcher, 2014)
“Many thanks Mina – this is MOST helpful
given we are into grant rounds. Much
appreciated.” (Psychology researcher)
“Thanks very much for this, it will be very
useful. It’s particularly useful to see all
three sources of information together,
as it helps in working out which one to
use in applications. It’s a great service.”
(Physiotherapy researcher, 2014)
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31. Library Research Forum
• Held to celebrate International Open Access Week in October
• 2013 Forum focused on enhanced Library Research Services
• Keynote speaker and panel of interdisciplinary researchers
• What are the current prevalent issues facing researchers?
• “Researchers are befuddled!” (Senior Podiatry Researcher)
• Predatory publishing, Where to publish, Social media,
Profiling tools
• Program built around these issues, presentations uploaded
onto SlideShare and embedded into a LibGuide (slideshare.net)
• http://latrobe.libguides.com/tweetationstocitations
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32.
33. SlideShare views since October 2013
Title Views
Predatory publishing 1,143
Data Citation Data
Management
889
Tweetations to Citations 1,596
Green v Gold 3,999
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34. Issues and reflections
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(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
35. Reflections
• Made expertise more visible
• New collaborations with research project teams
• Embeds the librarian’s high level expertise early into the
research process. The workload is intense, turnarounds times
tight and increasingly the service requires faculty librarians to
work across disciplinary teams.
• Right service at right time in research workflow
• How to gauge impact of our contribution to doubling of
research income?
• New Library structure – redefining our roles, emerging and
more focused roles on research support!
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