Talk that talk: creating a research support program for faculty members - Sandy Hervieux, Ana Rogers-Butterworth, Nahum Gelber

Sandy Hervieux, Head Librarian
Ana Rogers-Butterworth, Liaison Librarian
Nahum Gelber Law Library,
McGill University

• Institutional Context
• Granting Agency Requirements
• Faculty Needs
• Creating Partnerships
• Librarian Upskilling
• Programming
• Services
• Creating Your Research Support Plan
• Challenges and Lessons Learned
• Next Steps

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• McGill University is an English university in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
o Approximately 40 000 students
o Undergraduate and graduate programs in Arts,
Sciences, Medicine, Law, Agriculture, Music, etc...
• The Faculty of Law is bilingual (French and English)
o 889 students
o 55 faculty
o Transsystemic approach with both civil and common law
o Several new faculty members hired in the past few years
with varying research interests

• Nahum Gelber Law Library
o New Head Librarian started in January 2023
o 2 librarians
o 5 full time staff members
o 1-3 student employees
o Reduced library services and programming since the
pandemic
o Very few research support activities
o Several librarian left in the past few years for other
positions

Plan S seeks to make research funded by participating organizations freely
accessible to everyone, immediately upon publication, with the ultimate goal
of fostering innovation, collaboration, and societal progress.
It was developed by a coalition of research funding organizations and launched
in September 2018; initially focused on European funders.
Canadian granting agencies are slowly adopting Plan S principles; this will
create a major conflict between research grant requirements and publisher
policies, with researchers (our faculty) caught in the middle.

Funds approximately 10% of McGill law faculty research grants per year
• Required to make work open immediately, and under an open license (i.e.,
CC-BY or CC-BY-ND)
• Comply by publishing in an open access journal, archiving your work in a
repository, or paying an open access fee for hybrid journals
• McGill has some 100% OA discounts

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• Part of three federal granting councils in Canada that make up the "Tri-
Agency"
• Funds approximately 50% of McGill law faculty research grants per year
• Within 12 months publish in an open access journal, archive your work
in a repository, or pay an open access fee for hybrid journals
• The Tri-Agency will release a new OA Policy with the goal of requiring
that agency-supported publications be made immediately Open Access

• Online survey to determine the
needs of faculty members and
their areas of research
• Conducted online in Fall 2023
• Survey available in French and
English
• 20 responses: 15 for the English
survey and 5 for the French one

• What are your main areas of research?
• Which of the following data sources do you use for your research?
o Numeric data
o Geospatial data
o Images
o Transcripts or unstructured text
o Text (analyzing case law or legislation)
• Do you collect data as part of your research?
• Which methods do you rely on for your research?
o Qualitative
o Quantitative
o Critical Inquiry
• List 3-5 journals that you usually publish in or aim to publish in?

• Which of the following research-related topics would you like to know more
about?
o Building your scholarly profile (ORCID ID, Google Scholar)
o Open access
o How to organize your research, folders, and data
o Understanding and evaluation your publishing agreements
o Creative common licenses
o Empirical research methods
o Data management plans
o Digital tools that can help streamline your research
o Archiving your research files and documents
o Showing the impact of your research
o AI applications for research
• Is there anything else the library could help provide in terms of training or
resources?

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Associate Dean Research
and Research
Administrator
With the scholarly
communications
committee
Library expert on RDM
And Library AI experts

• Partnering with functional specialists to
create targeted training
• Online training opportunities, for
example: RDML, Elements of AI
• Webinars
• Online tool trainings: NVivo, digital
scholarship tools
• Communities of practice and working
groups

Plan S workshop
• Introduction to Plan S
• Existing policy for FRQ grants
• Revisions to the policy
• What are open licenses?
• How do I get an open license?
• Open Access options for FRQ grants
o 1-Publishing in an OA journal
o 2-Deposit in an open repository
o 3-Publish OA in a closed journal
• McGill Library publisher discounts
• FAQ
• McGill OA services

Organizing your Research workshop
• Overview of RDM
• Good practices for organizing research materials
o Folder structures
o File naming conventions
o File formats
o Metadata and documentation
o README documents and checklists
• Considerations for sensitive data

• Specialized software: NVivo
• Training for research assistants
• Consultations for research data management plans and
research organization

• What are the needs of your
faculty?
• How will you determine this
information?
• Who are potential partners?
• Is additional training required?
• Which services and programming
do you already have?
• Which ones would you like to
add?
• Barriers and challenges?

• New OA grant
requirements from FRQ
creates confusion
• Survey
highlights preferred
journals
• How can our faculty
comply with Plan S
publishing
requirements?
• Scholarly
Communications
Librarian
• Faculty Research Office
(which grants? Which
journals? Faculty
outreach)
• McGill's School of
Information Studies:
practicum program
(student to help in info
gathering)
• Faculty Info session on new FRQ
policy: sparks discussion of specific
needs
o Law journals OA policies are
difficult to find (absent from tools
like DOAJ)
• Law Journal OA Policy Project
o A targeted guide based on the OA
policies of law journals published
in by the law faculty
o To be released in 2025 ( in
alignment with Tri-Agency policy)

Scheduling
Changing Faculty
Habits
Recognizing
Librarian Expertise

• AI session in April
• Research assistant training in May
• Developing programming for building their
scholarly profile and digital tools to streamline
their research
• Evaluation of software and online tools that would
be relevant to the faculty
• OA Publishing Project: Guide to meeting OA
publishing requirements for targeted law journals
(Spring 2025)
• Be a collaborator on a faculty-led research project

Hervieux, S., & Wheatley, A. (2022). The rise of AI: Implications
and applications of artificial intelligence in academic libraries (1–1
online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations.). Association of
College and Research Libraries.
https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecor
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Mackenzie, A., & Martin, L. (Eds.). (2016). Developing Digital
Scholarship. Facet Publishing.
https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/developing-
digital-scholarship/?k=9781783301102
Plan S Principles (n.d.). Plan S. Retrieved January 12, 2024, from
https://www.coalition-s.org/plan_s_principles/
Xu, Z., Zhou, X., Kogut, A., & Watts, J. (2022). A Scoping Review:
Synthesizing Evidence on Data Management Instruction in
Academic Libraries. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(3),
102508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102508

Sandy Hervieux
Head Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library,
McGill University
sandy.hervieux@mcgill.ca
Ana Rogers-Butterworth
Liaison Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library,
McGill University
ana.rogers-butterworth@mcgill.ca

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