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Rebecca Parker

Under the Australian sun:new directions for research support in Australia

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Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Refrigerators (1856)

Electric drills (1889)

Notepads (1902)

Feature films (1906)

Ugg boots (1920s)

Electronic pacemaker (1928)

Plastic spectacle lenses (1960)

Ultrasound (1961)

Inflatable escape slides (1965)

Power boards (1972)

Bionic ear (1979)

Dual flush toilet (1980)Electronic pacemaker (1928)

Splayd (1943)

Hills Hoist clothesline (1945)

Solar hot water (1953)

Black box flight recorder (1958)

Dual flush toilet (1980)

Frozen embryo babies (1984)

Gene shears (1986)

Polilight forensic lamp (1989)

Wi-fi (1992)

Gardasil vaccine (2009)

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What will libraries be when they grow up? Maybe the answer is that

the librarian becomes the library.the librarian becomes the library.

Samantha Schmehl Hines,University of Montana (2013)

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Publishing

supportMetrics

Copyright

Data management

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Copyright © 2013 Adrian Malec. Reproduced under the CC BY-NC-ND AU licence. http://images.swinburne.edu.au/handle/1111.1/6024

Modelling research support

Source:Research Information Network (2010). Research support in UK universities.

Four-stage model of the research lifecycle

UK universities.

1. Access to high-quality research

materials

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2. Support for disseminating results

after publication

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What about the rest?

Auckland, M. (2012).

Re-skilling for research. London: RLUK.

Available from:

www.rluk.ac.uk/content/re-skilling-research

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Subject Subject Subject Subject

expertiseexpertiseexpertiseexpertise

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expertiseexpertiseexpertiseexpertise

Wikipedian protester (xkcd)

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The The The The

research research research research research research research research

processprocessprocessprocess

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9 areas of high skills gap & high importance

- Preserving research outputs

- Data management and curation

- Complying with research funder mandates

- Discipline-appropriate data manipulation tools

- Data mining- Data mining

- Metadata

- Preserving project records

- Sources of research funding

- Developing metadata schema and advice on discipline standards

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Research support isn’t just

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isn’t just

us

- Cloud computing

- Research virtual networks

IT

- Research virtual networks

- High performance computing

- Large scale data storage

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- Research policy and strategic direction

- Higher degree research training

- Higher degree research awards

Research Office

- Higher degree research awards

- Grants management

- Research performance analysis

- Government research reporting

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InformationInformationInformationInformation

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Research Information Network (2007). Researchers’ use of academic libraries and their services. London: RIN.

SwinburneSwinburne Research Bank

Not just for open

access

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(in fact,not the primary focusat all)

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Information (re)use(re)use

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Information (re)use(re)use

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Information Information Information Information

literacyliteracyliteracyliteracy

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researchers … showed

little interest in making

use of information skills

training from the library.

They are confident in their

awareness and awareness and

understanding of both the

generic and the specialist

tools that are relevant to

their research area

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Scholarly Scholarly Scholarly Scholarly

commscommscommscomms

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4. Help with publishing results

in scholarly journals

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Greeninstitutional repositories

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http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/

Goldopen access journals

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http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlinejournals/

Hybrid‘paid open access’

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Evilvanity publishers

Open access availability by discipline (2009)

Source: Björk B.-C., Welling P., & Laakso M., et al. (2010). Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009.

PLoS ONE 5(6), e11273.

Source: Gargouri, Y., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2012) Green and gold open access percentages and

growth, by discipline. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI),

Montreal, Canada, 05–08 Sep 2012.

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Research Research Research Research

funding and funding and funding and funding and

metricsmetricsmetricsmetricsmetricsmetricsmetricsmetrics

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3. Help with research promotion and opportunities

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http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/research/mandates.html

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http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/research/citationdata.htm

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- All publications information collected

- All full text required for peer review sourced

- Dark archive of full text managed

- Support for submissions to the journal list

- Maintenance of the Scopus dataset.

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Research Research Research Research

datadatadatadatadatadatadatadata

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6. Support for managing research

data

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Relatively few researchers have the knowledge

or skills to manage their data effectively, and only

a small number of people have the specialist

data management and curation skills combined

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data management and curation skills combined

with the subject domain expertise often required

in order to provide effective support to

researchers in the course of their work.

Research Information Network (2010). Research support in UK universities. London: RIN.

Data helps with research integrity

Emma, please insert NMR

[nuclear magnetic

resonance spectroscopy]

data here! where are they?

and for this compound,

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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/accidentally-published-note-to-papers-co-author-sparks-investigation/2006831.article

and for this compound,

just make upmake upmake upmake up an elemental

analysis.

* Actual notes on a published paper

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[Subject Librarians] cannot be expert in themselves in

each new capability, but knowing when to call in a colleague, or how to describe appropriate expert capabilities to faculty, will be key to the new liaison role.

Just as researchers are often working in teams to

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Just as researchers are often working in teams to leverage compatible expertise, liaison librarians will need to be team builders among library experts where this advances client research.

Hahn, K. (2009). Introduction: positioning liaison librarians for the 21st century.

Research Library Issues, 265, 1–2.

SwinburneAcknowledgements

My wise research librarian

colleagues aroundAustralia and NZ

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and

for inviting me to speak today

Where to next?

Rebecca Parker BA MIM AALIARebecca Parker BA MIM AALIA

rparker@swin.edu.au

For more information on Australian research support:

Parker, R. (2012). What the library did next: strengthening

our visibility in research support. VALA Conference.

Richardson, J., et al. (2012). Library research support in Queensland: a survey. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 43(4), 258-277.