Open Access

Niamh BrennanTrinity College Library Dublin

EIFL Global Assembly,Wednesday, November 12th 2014

From study to academic research support: the emerging role of the librarian

Trinity College Dublin,Ireland

Trinity College DublinResearch themes: Creative Technologies;Smart & Sustainable Cities

“Higher education operates in the global arena and this is the context in which academic outputs, standards and quality are benchmarked and referenced”. – HEA Landscape document 2012

“It is clear that as the nature of research within our institutions changes, so must the role of thelibrary in supporting research. The increasingly competitive research environment demands greater collaboration (across disciplines, institutional, and national boundaries) and generates greater quantities of data than ever before. In addition, funders are placing increased emphasis on the demonstration of the impact of research outputs and engendering wide dissemination of researchfindings...”

- ARL, New Roles for New Times:Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries, August 2013. http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/NRNT-Liaison-Roles-final.pdf

“...As research activities evolve, research support must evolve with it. There has been much debate within libraries as to what form this evolution will take—but little consensus in terms of the part to be played by the library in general or the role of library staff members in particular.”

- ARL, New Roles for New Times:Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries, August 2013. http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/NRNT-Liaison-Roles-final.pdf

1. Scholarly publishing servicesProviding publishing services via local or hosted digital publishing platforms for journals, books, conference proceedings, working papers and other works of original scholarship from faculty and students. Working with digital repository and other professionals to provide for storage, description, access and preservation of this content.

2. Copyright and Open Access advocacy and outreachProviding consultation and education to faculty and students on copyright and open access policies, services and resources. Marketing and promoting open access license and publishing alternatives to commercial publishing equivalents.

3. Scholarly resource assessmentProviding expertise, consultation and outreach to the campus community around scholarly resource assessment and metrics, from traditional bibliometrics to emerging altmetrics.

Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication

a) Increase in jobs with ‘scholarly communication’ in the title

b) Differences in title, emphasis and content between Europe and North America. E.g. North America is more sharply focused on copyright wjereas European ones hae a broader remit.

Landmark

METHODOLOGY

35 positions: 24 in North America, 11 in Europe & UK

35 positions: 24 in North America, 11 in Europe & UK

Oxford University: Deputy to Bodleian Librarian

University of Cambridge: Head of Scholarly Communication

‘The Value of Libraries for Research &

Researchers’ – RLUK/RIN 2011

http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/value_of_libraries_for_scre

en_1.pdf

‘The Value of Libraries for Research &

Researchers’ – RLUK/RIN 2011

http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/value_of_libraries_for_scre

en_1.pdf

- i.e. ‘Research Information Management Systems’ / CRIS

RAE: ‘Research Assessment Exercise [UK]; REF: Research Excellence Framework

World University Rankings

Research Reporting

TCD Research Support System Brief/Context

“A coherent information policy for College to address the needs of management, the Library, e-learning, electronic publications and records management will be developed with a view to having an integrated view of information systems across the whole of College.”

“A research database will be part of an integrated management system to help monitor our progress in research and scholarship and to help manage their support.”

-TCD Strategic Plan, Chapter 5: Strategy to Realise our Vision of Trinity, Action 18, p26

Putting the users at the heart of the service...

CURRENT RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM- CV-driven- Fully integrated with complementary systems- initial population from Human Resources records- updated & enhanced ‘live’ by researcher,- mediated input on-demand (Library-based service)

Bibliographic records:- Started with our institutional Citation Report from ISI- Now: APIs available from Web of Science, PubMed, Others- Specifically requested by researchers

Personal URL/Research Webpage

Live feed on to School webpages

- Fully integrated with Research Support System- Added value to information in both systems

• Research publications

• Etheses

• Epublishing/Grey Literature

• Images

http://www.tara.tcd.ie

Repository with Added Value

Link to Researcher’s Profile

Research Support System with Fulltext Links

RIAN: Ireland’s Open Access Research Portalhttp://rian.ie

Browse Ireland’s OA (Green!) publicly-funded research by author, title, funder, institution, publication type, keyword...

DART-Europe: Digital Access to Research Theses Europe

http://www.dart-europe.eu

TCD Integrated Research Information Systems

Inst itut ional Repository

Human Resources

Physical Resources

Financials

Library

Student Administration

Research Support System• Bibliographic metadata (inc. APIs)• Research Expertise• Project tracking

Web server

Web Services

FTP server

DMZ DMZ

External Bodies• The web / •Search engines etc.• OAI harvesters

External Bodies• The web / •Search engines etc.• OAI harvesters

External Bodies• Thesis Print-Shop

External Bodies• Thesis Print-Shop

External BodiesExternal Bodies

OmekaOJS

TCD Integrated Research Information Systems

LibraryComputing Services (MIS)Research & Innovation ServicesOffice of the PresidentOffice of the Dean of ResearchOffice of the Dean of Graduate StudiesVice Provost’s OfficeDean of Students, Students Union, Graduate S.U.Communications OfficeHuman ResourcesQuality OfficeFaculty & School AdministratorsFaculty Deans, Heads of Schools & Research InstitutesSchool Directors of ResearchWeb Design OfficeConsultants engaged by the University

Research Strategy

Understanding our Research Outputs

Performance-based university funding for Ireland’s Higher Education Authority

Key Performance Indicators

(University-selected)

Research

•% of research productive staff

•Impact relative to the world

•% of peer reviewed journal articles available on open access

•Research funding

Internationalisation(amongst other KPIs for internationalisation)

% papers with international co-authorship

Library reported

Library reported

Library reported

Library reported

‘Assessing Europe’sUniversity-Based

Research’ – European Commission Expert

Group on Assessment of University-based Research 2010

http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/17/

External review of Biosciences in TCD

External review of Biosciences in TCD Funding Proposal input Funding Proposal input

RISS CASE STUDY: Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute

AdditionalFund-raising

Support

AdditionalFund-raising

Support

Reports & Evaluat-ions

Reports & Evaluat-ions

CRIS & TARA development:

reports on Publications, Esteem, Bibliomterics;

Repository used for reviewer access to key

papers

CRIS & TARA development:

reports on Publications, Esteem, Bibliomterics;

Repository used for reviewer access to key

papers

Systems support for submission of major grant proposal: CRIS

auto-capture of people & publications data, reporting workflow;

bibliometric & impact reports

Systems support for submission of major grant proposal: CRIS

auto-capture of people & publications data, reporting workflow;

bibliometric & impact reports

Supply of data for information/marketing purposes: on people, publications, research

strengths, impact

Supply of data for information/marketing purposes: on people, publications, research

strengths, impact

Ongoing supply of publications and

bibliometric/impact data for quarterly

funder reports, TARA support for funder OA

mandate

Ongoing supply of publications and

bibliometric/impact data for quarterly

funder reports, TARA support for funder OA

mandate

2005-6 2011 20122009-10Team effort: The Library Contribution

RISS CASE STUDY: Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute

Data Sources & Resources

TCD Integrated Research Systems = CRIS + Dspace + OJS + Omeka

Web of Knowledge [WoS, Essential Science Indicators, InCites] Scopus Patents analysis, patent citation databases Technology transfer & industry liaison information (internal) Institutional reports Government reports International reports (OECD, World Bank, EU etc.) Media reports including scientific journal news ScienceWatch Google Analytics & Dspace statistics Emerging: Altmetrics

RISS Case Study: Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute

Now developing...

Further, deeper, better, more streamlined, more automated on demand research evaluation

Inclusion of ‘other’ research outputs

Development of impact reporting for the ‘Third Mission’: societal, economic, cultural impact

Better integration of research information and research outputs into the publishing workflow

ePublishing and digital showcasing/dissemination

Mainstreaming within the Library?

New Research Output Types Included in theCRIS (Research Support System) &Incorporated into TARA

1. Scholarly publishing servicesProviding publishing services via local or hosted digital publishing platforms for journals, books, conference proceedings, working papers and other works of original scholarship from faculty and students. Working with digital repository and other professionals to provide for storage, description, access and preservation of this content.

2. Copyright and Open Access advocacy and outreachProviding consultation and education to faculty and students on copyright and open access policies, services and resources. Marketing and promoting open access license and publishing alternatives to commercial publishing equivalents.

3. Scholarly resource assessmentProviding expertise, consultation and outreach to the campus community around scholarly resource assessment and metrics, from traditional bibliometrics to emerging altmetrics.

Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication

In 2012, Research Libraries UK (RLUK) surveyed 23 of theirmember institutions in efforts to map the needs ofthe changing scholarly landscape and to create aseries of recommendations for stakeholders. The RLUKstudy revealed that the skills of librarians, informationspecialists, and liaison staff must be developed toadequately support their institutions’ researchers;subject librarians, specifically, will need to fulfill a rolethat has transformed from information discovery andmanagement, collection development, and literacytraining to one that emphasizes the research processin greater depth, from the curation and preservationof research data to mastering effective methods ofscholarly communication and dissemination.

The Key is

Collaboration

“The game has changed. So must we.”

-Charles Henry & Brad Wheeler,

Educause Review 47 (2), March/April 2012*

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume47/TheGameHasChanged/247701

- to support our researchers, our institutions and our countries

- In a collaborative global environment

Open Access Niamh BrennanTrinity College Library

Phone: +353 1 896 1646Email: niamh.brennan@tcd.ie