Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience. A presentation for LIASA 15th Annual Conference 2013 by Rosa Padrós Cuxart, Clara Riera Quintero & Anna Zuñiga Ruiz.

1. Skills and
competences of
research librarians.
The UOC experience
Rosa Padrós Cuxart
Clara Riera Quintero
Anna Zuñiga Ruiz
LIASA 15th Annual Conference
2013

2. • The role of the research
support team
• Competences and
skills of research librarians
• UOC Library Research
Support Services
• Benefits for researchers
and for the Library

3. Organisational structure

4. Research Support Library Services Group
as a result of
Institutional context:
• Strategic planning
• Promoting research
• Cross-disciplinary work
External context:
• Evaluation of research outcomes: competitive
and rigorous processes
• Bibliometric units coming on

5. UOC Library Research Support Services in
line with the research support workflows:
• UOC areas involved
• Research tools (CRIS, institutional repository,
scholarly resources)
• Research services and activities
Crossdisciplinarity
Integration

6. UOC research areas and institutes
Research librarians in close collaboration with:
• Office of the Vice President for Research and
Innovation
• Research and Transfer Support Office (OSRT)
• Planning and Quality Office
UOC Research Institutes:
• IN3 Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
• eLearn Center

7. UOC research tools
• CRIS: GIR (Software: Universitas XXI)
• OSRT Intranet
• O2 Institutional Repository
• UOC Research and innovation website

8. Distinction between:
- Professional competences:
specific knowledge on
particular matters that make it
possible to carry out an
activity
- Personal competences or
skills: an innate or acquired
ability that makes it possible
to carry out an activity or
provide a service
New research services
and activities

9. Research librarian competences 1/2
• Virtual reference
• Scholarly Resources Knowledge
• Data expert
• Bibliometric knowledge
• Statistics
• Research Performance Measurement
• Publishing sector: guidance

10. Research librarian competences 2/2
• Journal Indexing Criteria
• IT Skills
• Social Networking
• Copyright, Licensing & Open Access
• Digital preservation policies

11. Research librarian skills 1/2
• Strategic Orientation
• Proactivity
• Interpersonal Skills in a Virtual Environment
• Cross-Disciplinary

12. Research librarian skills 2/2
• Communication Skills
• Social/Community Skills
• Teamwork
• Virtual Teaching & Training Skills

13. UOC Library Research Support Services in
line with the research lifecycle:

14. New Library support research
services and activities
• Bibliometric service
• Bibliographic searches
• Support service for
accreditation calls
• Standardization of
authors’ names
• Open-access publication
of doctoral theses service
http://beta.biblioteca.uoc.edu/app/bibweb/?q=en/node/486

15. Bibliometric service
• Support service for searching bibliometric data
and assessing the quality of scientific output
• Bibliometric reports:
– bibliometric analysis of publications:
articles, books
– assistance with establishing a strategy
regarding where to publish the articles
– ISI reports of authors UOC

16. Bibliographic searches service
- Personalised guidance (search terms,
information sources, etc.) on searching for
documents relevant to a user’s academic or
research activity
- Customised reports, for example:
• identifying a field’s leading authors or
research groups
• providing state of the art of a topic
• identifying journals that publish articles on a
given topic

17. Support service for accreditation calls
- Support service for finding bibliometric data
(impact factors, citations, etc.) about
publications
- Useful when applying for accreditation by the
Quality Assurance Agencies (AQU, ANECA,
etc.)
- Providing support guides [In Catalan language]
http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/21521

18. Standardization of authors’ names
• Service to handle standardization of authors’
names in the different databases

19. Open-access publication of doctoral theses
service
• UOC’s O2 institutional repository
• Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Doctoral Theses on
the Web, TDX) cooperative repository

20. BENEFITS for researchers and research groups
• Contact Person / Team Expert in Research
• Supporting Research Processes
• Access 24/7: Virtual reference & Scholarly
Resources
• Support for Improving the Quality of Research
• Better Management Research Services
• Guidance on Dissemination of Research

21. BENEFITS for the Virtual Library
• Increased Visibility Inside the University
• New Services Deployment
• Professional Development
• Better Perception of The Library Services by
the Researcher

22. To know more about
Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new
services [Poster]
http://hdl.handle.net/10609/15321
Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new
services [Article]
http://hdl.handle.net/10609/14221
Rosa Padrós Cuxart rpadrosc@uoc.edu
Clara Riera Quintero crieraq@uoc.edu
Anna Zuñiga Ruiz azuniga@uoc.edu

23. Thank you!
LIASA 15th Annual Conference
2013