Libraries and Research Assessment

Michael Jubb

UHMLG Spring ForumImpact: Preparing for Research Assessment

7 March 2011

University Libraries: the Enlightenment Ideal

NEW RESEARCH INTERESTS OR

DIRECTION

MANAGING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

STRONG RESEARCH MATERIALS

FLEXIBLE PHYSICAL SPACE

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

CATALOGUE OF RESEARCH MATERIALS

INFORMATION AND ORGANISATIONAL

SKILLS

LEGACY PERCEPTION OF

LIBRARY AS HOME OF KNOWLEDGE

NEUTRAL POSITION AT CENTRE OF INSTITUTION

GOOD SUBJECT EXPERTISE

PROACTIVE INFORMATION SPECIALISTS

MORE RESEARCH INCOME

INCREASED POTENTIAL

READERSHIP OF RESEARCH

MORE SATISFIED RESEARCHERS

HIGHER QUALITY RESEARCH

GREATER RESEARCH OUTPUT

RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF

HIGHER QUALITY RESEARCHERS

MORE MOTIVATED RESEARCHERS

MORE EFFICIENT RESEARCH

BETTER RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

BETTER RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

IMPROVED COORDINATION OF

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

INCREASED VISIBILITY OF RESEARCH

IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL

UNDERSTANDING OF INFORMATION

ASSETS

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS

WITH RESEARCHERS

WIDER INSTITUTIONAL

ROLE

MANIFESTATION OF SCHOLARSHIP

STRONG SERVICE CULTURE

GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

OUTWARD-FACING LIBRARY

RESEARCHER-FOCUSED SERVICES

LIBRARY BEHAVIOUR OR CHARACTERISTIC END BENEFITS

OPPORTUNITIES FOR BROWSING

GOOD REPUTATION OF INSTITUTION FOR RESEARCH

BETTER INFORMED RESEARCHERS

IMPROVED RESEARCH PRACTICES

INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES AND BENEFITS

Libraries and research

Library services and characteristics……..

What is research assessment and how could or should the library be

involved?

Competition and examination….

……and the problem of scarcity

Why do universities do it?

Why do universities do it?

Why do funders do it?

What do they want to assess?

How to assess?

Role of the library?Content

Role of the library?Services

Issuesqualitycomprehensivenessauthority filesduplication/de-duplicationversionsgrey literature

Role of the library?Services

Role of the library?Expertise

Opportunities and challenges for libraries

central locus for contentservicesknowledge and expertise

custodians of the research outputs of the university

repositories, publications databases, research information systems

relationships with other central services?the research office?

relationships with researchers?

Thank you

Questions?

Michael Jubb

www.rin.ac.uk