The UW Libraries provide a variety of resources and services to support research at UW Tacoma, including getting resources like subject librarians building collections, training research assistants, the Digital Commons institutional repository, the Foundation Center funding database, using the library as a research site, open scholarship, data and visualization services, consultation on research workflows, and collaboration on student learning.

1. The UW Libraries as a
Catalyst for Your Research
Lauren Pressley
Director, UW Tacoma Library
Associate Dean, UW Libraries

2. One Library: Three Campuses

3. Getting Resources

4. Getting Resources: What does this mean?
> Subject librarians use knowledge of literature in
subject area to build collections
> Work with UW Libraries to contribute to a world
class collection
> Work with the Orbis Cascade Alliance and others to
increase collections campus can access
> At times, provide access to specialized resources to
support specific research projects

5. Getting Resources: Why do we do it?
> Core library service
> Fiscal stewardship through partnerships with UW
Libraries and others

6. Getting Resources: What can we do for you?
> Provide materials from a number of libraries to
support your research
> Occasionally can get special access to resources
you need to complete a research project

7. Training Research Assistants

8. Training Research Assistants:
What does this mean?
> Helping research assistants acquire the skills
necessary to do the research you ask them to do
– Online databases
– Navigating the print collections
– Finding government information
– Connecting with Special Collections in Seattle
– Structuring their search

9. Training Research Assistants:
Why do we do it?
> Connected to our teaching mission to help our
students gain skills in information literacy
> Indirectly supports faculty research

10. Getting Resources: What can we do for you?
> Offer workshops for Research Assistants
> Work one-on-one with Research Assistants as
available
> Connect Research Assistants to librarians in Seattle
as appropriate

11. Digital Commons

12. Digital Commons: What is it?
> An Institutional Repository
> SelectedWorks Profiles
> Campus Journals

13. Digital Commons: Why do we do it?
> Preserve the scholarly record of UW Tacoma
> Make campus research more findable on the internet
> Extend the impact of campus research
> Help faculty (and students) showcase their research

14. What can we do for you?
> Create a SelectedWorks profile
> Help determine the copyright status of your
publications
> Host open access versions of your publications
– Add metadata to make them more findable
> Help find interdisciplinary collaborators through
SelectedWorks profiles

15. Foundation Center

16. Foundation Center: What is it?
> The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit
information clearinghouse established in 1956. The
Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the
foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and
disseminating information on foundations, corporate
giving programs, and related topics. It is the nation’s
leading authority on philanthropy and strives to easily
connect non-profits with grantmakers.

17. Why do we do it?
> Help faculty, staff, students, and community locate
potential sources of funding
> A service for the community as part of an Urban
Serving University
> A tool to support finding funding for education in
support of UW Tacoma’s access mission

18. What can we do for you?
> Provide access to the Foundation Directory Online,
the Foundation Maps, and Foundation Grants to
Individuals (in-library access only)
> Consult and train in the use of Foundation Center
tools
> Offer workshops on the Foundation Center Tools as
requested

19. Library as a Research Site

20. Library as a Research Site: What is it?
> Several classes have used the library as a research
site: usability, user experience, etc.

21. Library as a Research Site: Why do we do it?
> We learn from your research and can improve based
on your findings!
> If you’re working with students, it’s an easy location
for them to find and you will know that we have
experience working with students

22. Library as a Research Site:
What can we do for you?
> Identify potential projects to meet your outcome
> Share context and background information that
would be relevant to the design of the project
> Work with students as they gather data

23. Open Scholarship

24. Open Scholarship: What is it?
> Open Access (OA) publishing
– Rights retention
– Navigating different publication models
– Meet mandated policies for federal grant requirements
> Open Data
– Meet mandated policies for federal grant requirements
> Open Educational Resources (OER)
– Finding and evaluating Open Textbooks and other OER
objects
– Creation of OER

25. Open Scholarship: Why do we do it?
> Scholarly journal inflation rate has outpaced budget
inflation across the academy for decades
> A belief that information should be available without
belonging to an elite institution
> UW Tacoma is an Urban Serving University that has
an emphasis on publically engaged scholarship

26. Open Scholarship: What can we do for you?
> Navigate your rights and requirements as an author
> Offer or coordinate workshops and training on open
scholarship issues
> Host your work through Digital Commons
> Consult about different publications and publishing
models
> Locate open datasets, open educational resources,
or other open sources to support your work

27. Digital Scholarship

28. Digital Scholarship: What is it?
> “Digital Scholarship” is defined as any scholarly activity
that makes extensive use of one or more of the new
possibilities for teaching and research opened up by the
unique affordances of digital media. These include, but
are not limited to, new forms of collaboration, new forms
of publication, and new methods for visualizing and
analyzing data. - Demystifying the Digital Humanities,
University of Washington

29. Digital Scholarship: Why do we do it?
> Our aim is to support faculty research, regardless of
type or format
> Librarians and library staff have a professional
obligation to remain knowledgeable about the
evolving information and research environment

30. Digital Scholarship: What can we do for you?
> Consult on possible avenues for digital scholarship
work and publication
> Coordinate or offer workshops and training
> Connect you to librarians within the larger UW
Libraries that have expertise in the area you are
working in
> Help make sense of the current state of Alt-Metrics
for evaluating the impact of your scholarship

31. Data/Visualization

32. Data/Visualization: What is it?
> Research Data Services facilitates the integration of
data into the intellectual discovery process across
disciplinary and organizational boundaries to support the
research data management needs of faculty and
students at the University of Washington. This includes
support for finding and accessing data, data
management planning, data organization, reuse of data,
data sharing and storage, data citation and more.

33. Data/Visualization: Why do we do it?
> Increasingly grant requests ask for data
management plans
> Data literacy is becoming more important as “Big
Data” becomes a theme across academic domains
> Many disciplines use GIS data in their research
> With new ways of disseminating information, more
faculty look to producing visualizations to
communicate their point quickly and effectively

34. Data/Visualization: What can we do for you?
> Consult and collaborate with other librarians to
support data management plan requirements
> Coordinate or offer workshops and training
> Connect you to librarians within the larger UW
Libraries that have expertise in the area you are
working in
> Help navigate tools that support data analysis and
visualization

35. Workflows

36. Workflows: What are they?
> Navigating the many PDFs, notes, documents, and
other resources used in writing for publication
> May include electronic documents and print
> May include software to organize, use, and write

37. Workflows: Why do we consult about them?
> With increasing access to information comes more
to sift through when writing
> Librarians and library staff are professionally trained
in how to organize information to make it more
usable
> Understanding contemporary writing and publishing
practices helps inform how we approach library
work, services, and collaborations

38. Workflows: What can we do for you?
> Consult with you about the challenges you’re trying
to solve
> Offer workshops and training on ways to think about
constructing workflows and tools that may be of
interest
> Connect you to people within the library who have a
deep understanding of tools that may help with your
challenge
> Consult about possible ways to integrate these tools

39. One more thing

40. We also collaborate with faculty student
learning
> Customized workshops
> Research websites (LibGuides)
> Assignment design
> Canvas Toolkit
> 3D printing
> Pedagogical and instructional design consulting