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Providing Research Services to faculty and
staff: ideas & innovations
Amy Elizabeth Neeser
Research Services & Plant Sciences Librarian candidate presentation
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Providing Research Services to faculty and
staff: ideas & innovations
Amy Elizabeth Neeser
Research Services & Plant Sciences Librarian candidate presentation
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
^And students!
Today’s presentation
• Why research services?
• Overview of academic libraries’ current role in research services.
• Moving research services forward at UMN Libraries.
• Q&A
Changing landscape of academic research
• Developments in network technologies and computing-intensive processes • Automated operations• Diverse media
• Increased collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches
• Research impact
• Competitive funding
Research Life cycle
“The research librarian’s role has transformed to the extent that it is much more integral to the work of the researcher; that it is required to provide support at each stage of the research cycle.”
(RIN, 2010; Parker, 2012; Auckland, 2012).
Research life cycle
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
core services
• Data preservation / management
• Scholarly communication
• Impact factor
• Research networking
• Information management
Data preservation / management
• Data management mandates
• Data and Subject specific repositories
• Metadata
• Ontologies
• Digital life cycle
Digital life cycle
http://www.iassistdata.org
Digital life cycle
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
Scholarly communication
• Publishing help • non-text items
• Open access education / support
• Institutional repositories
• Copyright
Impact factor
• Citation count
• Article downloads
• H-index
• Alternative metrics
Research networking
• Experts@Minnesota
• Author identifiers • ORCID• Vivo
• Social networking
information management
• Personal information management (PIM)
• Citation managers
• Current awareness tools
• Productivity consultations
• Information / data management education
Personal archiving
core services
Data Management Scholarly Communication
Impact Factor
Research Networking
Information Management
core services
Data Management Scholarly Communication
Impact Factor
Research Networking
Information Management
^ Unified
Moving research services forward at umn
• User need assessment
• Determine what we currently offer and gaps
• Turn core services into measurable services and track impact
• Determine short and long term measureable goals
Moving research services forward at umn
• Cross discipline
• Liaison support!
Disciplinary differences
UMN Research and Discovery mission
“Generate and preserve knowledge, understanding, and creativity by conducting
high-quality research, scholarship, and artistic activity that benefit students, scholars, and
communities across the state, the nation, and the world.”
