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Providing Research Services to faculty and

staff: ideas & innovations

Amy Elizabeth Neeser

Research Services & Plant Sciences Librarian candidate presentation

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Providing Research Services to faculty and

staff: ideas & innovations

Amy Elizabeth Neeser

Research Services & Plant Sciences Librarian candidate presentation

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

^And students!

Today’s presentation

• Why research services?

• Overview of academic libraries’ current role in research services.

• Moving research services forward at UMN Libraries.

• Q&A

Changing landscape of academic research

• Developments in network technologies and computing-intensive processes • Automated operations• Diverse media

• Increased collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches

• Research impact

• Competitive funding

Research Life cycle

“The research librarian’s role has transformed to the extent that it is much more integral to the work of the researcher; that it is required to provide support at each stage of the research cycle.”

(RIN, 2010; Parker, 2012; Auckland, 2012).

Research life cycle

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

core services

• Data preservation / management

• Scholarly communication

• Impact factor

• Research networking

• Information management

Data preservation / management

• Data management mandates

• Data and Subject specific repositories 

• Metadata

• Ontologies

• Digital life cycle

Digital life cycle

http://www.iassistdata.org

Digital life cycle

http://www.dcc.ac.uk

Scholarly communication

• Publishing help • non-text items

• Open access education / support

• Institutional repositories

• Copyright

Impact factor

• Citation count

• Article downloads

• H-index

• Alternative metrics

Research networking

• Experts@Minnesota

• Author identifiers • ORCID• Vivo

• Social networking

information management

• Personal information management (PIM)

• Citation managers

• Current awareness tools

• Productivity consultations

• Information / data management education

Personal archiving

core services

Data Management Scholarly Communication

Impact Factor

Research Networking

Information Management

core services

Data Management Scholarly Communication

Impact Factor

Research Networking

Information Management

^ Unified

Moving research services forward at umn

• User need assessment

• Determine what we currently offer and gaps

• Turn core services into measurable services and track impact

• Determine short and long term measureable goals

Moving research services forward at umn

• Cross discipline

• Liaison support!

Disciplinary differences

UMN Research and Discovery mission

“Generate and preserve knowledge, understanding, and creativity by conducting

high-quality research, scholarship, and artistic activity that benefit students, scholars, and

communities across the state, the nation, and the world.”

Questions?

Thank you!

Amy Elizabeth Neesernees0017@umn.edu612-624-7899www.amyneeser.com