Panel presentation CUP Librarians meeting

1. Managing key relationships: the Library
and the academic world
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian

2. The university in the modern world
• Communication of research
• Democratisation of knowledge
• “intermediaries” that “transport meaning or
force without transformation” (Latour,
2005)
• “networks rather than repositories are the
most important solution to improve the
sharing of knowledge” (Snowden, 2013)
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3. Who in the university is responsible?
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4. Intersecting communities
• Early career academics
• Post docs
• Students
• Research Divisions
• Research training areas
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5. University publishing
We are all involved!
• One in four university libraries in Australia
is publishing original scholarly works in
some form (mostly journals)
• Most are available online and are open
access
• The publications are read widely (over 3.4
million downloads this year) and
internationally
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6. University publishing
• New skills and services have been
developed that support innovative
publishing and scholarly communication
• Australian university publishing
undertaken by libraries is world leading in
terms of new forms of publishing, reaching
wide audiences and innovation in practice
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7. 2015
• Repositories well established
• Government policy for research focuses
on communication to industry
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8. The study
• Interviews with Australian Industry Group,
Business Council of Australia, Council of
Small Business in Australia, Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Export Council of Australia and Minerals
Council of Australia
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9. Findings
• knowledge transfer and access to
research outputs complex and unsatisfying
• Respondents had a very task focused
approach to knowledge seeking
• use of trusted subject matter experts
and information producers
(intermediators)
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10. • Access to data is vital
• When knowledge was required rarely was
there direct communication with a
university expert
• Research needs are for international and
national research
• first stage of research was to reach for
Google Scholar or Google.
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11. Major factors
• Trust
• Time
• Validation (data)
• Reuse
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12. Current gaps
• Discoverability
• Linking data and other outputs
• Context with international research
• Alerting
• Impact data (for researchers)
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13. Future…
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14. • Comments/questions
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