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Turning Our Attention to

Supporting Research

Amber Thomas

Academic Technology Manager

University of Warwick

http://www.slideshare.net/academictechwarwick/iwmwsupportingresearch

confessionconfession

my contextmy context

By Scouten (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

is research a blind spot?is research a blind spot?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/jan/10/research-communications-uk-university-websites

UK changes to funding and UK changes to funding and evaluation of researchevaluation of research

OPEN ACCESS

IMPACT

RESEARCH DATA

research is changingresearch is changing

Amber Thomas. "21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia". November 2012, Ariadne Issue 70 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/thomas

public engagementpublic engagement

institutional webpagesare not enough

and who helps researcherswith everything else?

open accessopen access

remodelling peer review

changes the role of the library

potential for rebirth of university press

so much more is public

broadening of what countsbroadening of what counts

• research datasets• code• blogs• slidedecks• podcasts and videos

a huge range of formatson a huge range of platforms

collaboration and collaboration and interdisciplinarityinterdisciplinarity

By Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png:Stern at de.wikipedia derivative work: Sillyfolkboy (Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], from Wikimedia Commons

Projects don’t fit in our fixed structuresProjects spread …•between specialisms•across departments•between institutions•beyond bordersResearch happens outside the universityOutputs live outside the university

altmetricsaltmetrics

“Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact. This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. Articles are increasingly joined by:•The sharing of “raw science” like datasets, code, and experimental designs•Semantic publishing or “nanopublication,” where the citeable unit is an argument or passage rather than entire article.•Widespread self-publishing via blogging, microblogging, and comments or annotations on existing work “

http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

Some fundamental questions are being asked that could change how we manage and evaluate research within universities

a more social scholarshipa more social scholarship

academic networks become more visiblea new currency is emerging*

Currency metaphor with a nod to Dave White, Oxford TALL

research footprint monitoringresearch footprint monitoring

Collate usage data from where your research lives and breathes

Back onto your institutional webpages, through APIs, feeds and widgets

Digital Humanities @ WarwickDigital Humanities @ Warwick

Oliver Kanaan, Diving into the Splash CC BY NC http://fav.me/d2wp6h4

emerging themes, 6 months inemerging themes, 6 months in

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/research/digitalhumanities/

visualisation

social media

analytics

databases emerging themes

reflections, 6 months inreflections, 6 months in

• reminds me a lot of how e-learning support used to be 5-10 years ago

• could the fees system change and student satisfaction agenda have shifted the focus toward teaching?

• researchers are anxious because things are changing so fast

• hugely political, a spectrum of drivers and a complexity of response

• neutral stance is that digital scholarship is digital literacy applied to the new research landscape

implications implications for institutional websitesfor institutional websites

We have to get good at:•Re-aggregating distributed content analytics•Using third party specialist platforms: risk management•Data and databases, throughout the lifecycle•Preservation and archiving•Being technology collaborators in complex projects•Responsive innovation through to service provision•Admitting we don’t know the answers sometimes!

Thanks!

Amber Thomas

Academic Technology Manager

University of Warwick

amber.thomas @ warwick.ac.uk

@ambrouk