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.

1. Supporting authors – the
library’s role in research impact
Alison McNab
Laurian Williamson
Research Support Team,
University of Nottingham
@AlisonMcNab / @LaurianW
@UoNlibraries

2. The University of Nottingham
Research Strategy 2015-20

3. University of Nottingham research
landscape and enterprise
• Five global research themes
• Research portfolio worth over £300m
• Over 2,300 research projects
• Nottingham also has more than 200 industrial
sponsors of research
• Postgraduate Research Students: 4,413 (Dec 14)

4. Our aims
• Strategically important to support researchers with
their OA and RDM requirements
• Entice researchers back into the ‘library space’ – virtual
and physical
• Improved advocacy between library and our research
community
• Understanding of the research environment and where
the library fits into it

5. Library touch points – opportunities
Developing an idea
Funding and
grants
Research
proposal
Conducting
active
research
Disseminating
research
outputs
Research Lifecycle

6. Outcomes
• Building research support capacity and capability
(institutionally)
• Enhancing the ‘impact’ agenda
• Co-delivery of research support training from key
stakeholders
• Ensuring compliance with funders, institutional,
and research assessment (Post-2014 REF)
requirements and mandates

7. The challenges
• What do our researchers
want?
• What can we offer?
• One size fits all or
differentiated offers?
• Resourcing
• Mapping activities to
University and external
frameworks
• Compliance with funder OA
roadmaps

8. • Thank you for
listening
• Any questions?