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Library research support partnerships

Andria McGrathResearch Information SpecialistResearch Management Directorate

Formerly: Library Liaison Manager (Research)

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Partnerships within Library Services

At King’s 4 departments

• Information resources• Customer Services• Research & Learning Liaison• Archives & Information Management

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Information Resources

• Acquisition – Physical– electronic

• Management of electronic resources• Collection review

Digital Assets• New team – role – split between

– managing Digital Course Packs for taught courses– managing publications in institutional repository– Administering Open Access funds

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Archives & Information Management

• Foyle Special Collections Library• Unique historical resources – closed access but

access by arrangement• Digitisation

projects• Data

management

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Training & support for Information retrieval and management• RLL team – training for staff and research students• Updates for staff on new resources• Expert help for literature reviews – including

systematic reviews In Health and Social Sciences• Bibliographic management software• Data management (Archives & Information Mngmnt)• All Library and ITS research support training is

organised by a member of the RLL team in liaison with the Graduate School

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Finding and applying for Funding

• LS currently administers Research Professional database

• Information specialists can provide one to one help with searching the database and setting up alerts

• IM team provides advice on data management plans – now an essential part for most funding bids

• Advice on whether of not OA publication costs need to be included in funding bids

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Disseminating research

• Publishing - help for early career researchers– Choosing the journal – impact factors, tips and tricks

• Citation policy – and damage limitation exercises with WoS and Scopus

• Referencing – bib software and plagiarism – Dissertation clinics

• Theses – Word - Long documents for Theses not just technical software course

• Posters – PowerPoint for Posters course – liaison with Graduate School

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Open Access

• Drafted policy for College• Open access publishing (Wellcome, RCUK and

others) – Gold – Digital assets team administer the funds

• Open access in repositories – Green • Copyright agreements – addenda• Creative commons licences• Theses – etheses in the new repository

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Support for the RAE, REF – CRIS

• RAE – Research Gateway – home grown – IT partnership

• Pure – IT and Research Directorate • Digital Assets team in Information resources

– importing Web of Science/Scopus records– Proactively encouraging Open Access– Quality assurance

• Information specialists – supporting academics one to one

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Evaluating research - bibliometrics

• Attended CWTS course in Leiden• Advice on our webpages• ‘Citation counts’ training course• Web of Science• Scopus• Google Scholar• InCites – percentile in subject area useful for

selecting REF outputs• Scopus integration with Pure

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External liaison with data providers

• Development partner with Thomson Reuters on InCites

• JIBS member of WOSEC – in future – Scopus Enhancement group too (or instead)

• Dialogue with data providers about affiliation/address issues (University Rankings)

• Citation and acknowledgement of funders policy for the College

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Data management and archiving

• New – Data management policy• Information Management team• Advice provided on web pages – Information

management (currently) will be amalgamated• Digital archiving• ODM – Optimising Data Management

– one aspect – supporting the improvement of the system that records the College School and departmental hierarchy.