Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience Rosa Padrós CuxartClara Riera QuinteroAnna Zuñiga Ruiz

LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013

Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience Rosa Padrós CuxartClara Riera QuinteroAnna Zuñiga Ruiz

LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013

• The role of the researchsupport team• Competences and skills of research librarians• UOC Library Research Support Services• Benefits for researchers and for the Library

• The role of the researchsupport team• Competences and skills of research librarians• UOC Library Research Support Services• Benefits for researchers and for the Library

Organisational structure

Research Support Library Services Group as a result of

Institutional context:• Strategic planning• Promoting research• Cross-disciplinary work

External context:• Evaluation of research outcomes:

competitive and rigorous processes• Bibliometric units coming on

UOC Library Research Support Services in line with the research support workflows:

• UOC areas involved• Research tools (CRIS, institutional repository,

scholarly resources)• Research services and activities

CrossdisciplinarityIntegration

UOC research areas and institutes

Research librarians in close collaboration with:• Office of the Vice President for Research and

Innovation• Research and Transfer Support Office (OSRT)• Planning and Quality Office

UOC Research Institutes:• IN3 Internet Interdisciplinary Institute• eLearn Center

UOC research tools

• CRIS: GIR (Software: Universitas XXI)• OSRT Intranet• O2 Institutional Repository• UOC Research and innovation website

Distinction between:- Professional competences:

specific knowledge on particular matters that make it possible to carry out an activity

- Personal competences or skills: an innate or acquired ability that makes it possible to carry out an activity or provide a service

New research services and activities

Research librarian competences 1/2

• Virtual reference• Scholarly Resources Knowledge• Data expert• Bibliometric knowledge• Statistics• Research Performance Measurement• Publishing sector: guidance

Research librarian competences 2/2

• Journal Indexing Criteria• IT Skills• Social Networking• Copyright, Licensing & Open Access• Digital preservation policies

Research librarian skills 1/2

• Strategic Orientation• Proactivity• Interpersonal Skills in a Virtual Environment• Cross-Disciplinary

Research librarian skills 2/2

• Communication Skills• Social/Community Skills• Teamwork• Virtual Teaching & Training Skills

UOC Library Research Support Services in line with the research lifecycle:

New Library support research services and activities

• Bibliometric service• Bibliographic searches• Support service for

accreditation calls• Standardization of

authors’ names• Open-access publication

of doctoral theses service

http://beta.biblioteca.uoc.edu/app/bibweb/?q=en/node/486

Bibliometric service

• Support service for searching bibliometric data and assessing the quality of scientific output

• Bibliometric reports:– bibliometric analysis of publications:

articles, books– assistance with establishing a strategy

regarding where to publish the articles– ISI reports of authors UOC

Bibliographic searches service

- Personalised guidance (search terms, information sources, etc.) on searching for documents relevant to a user’s academic or research activity

- Customised reports, for example:• identifying a field’s leading authors or

research groups• providing state of the art of a topic• identifying journals that publish articles on a

given topic

Support service for accreditation calls

- Support service for finding bibliometric data (impact factors, citations, etc.) about publications

- Useful when applying for accreditation by the Quality Assurance Agencies (AQU, ANECA, etc.)

- Providing support guides [In Catalan language]http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/21521

Standardization of authors’ names

• Service to handle standardization of authors’ names in the different databases

Open-access publication of doctoral theses service

• UOC’s O2 institutional repository

• Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Doctoral Theses on the Web, TDX) cooperative repository

BENEFITS for researchers and research groups

• Contact Person / Team Expert in Research• Supporting Research Processes• Access 24/7: Virtual reference & Scholarly

Resources• Support for Improving the Quality of Research• Better Management Research Services• Guidance on Dissemination of Research

BENEFITS for the Virtual Library

• Increased Visibility Inside the University• New Services Deployment• Professional Development• Better Perception of The Library Services by

the Researcher

To know more about

Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new services [Poster]http://hdl.handle.net/10609/15321

Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new services [Article]http://hdl.handle.net/10609/14221

Rosa Padrós Cuxart rpadrosc@uoc.eduClara Riera Quintero crieraq@uoc.eduAnna Zuñiga Ruiz azuniga@uoc.edu

Thank you!Thank you!

LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013