MyRI: An bibliometrics toolkit – collaboration in research skills support

Ros Pan & Ellen Breen

The presentation – LILAC 2011

• Introductory points and slides – 15 mins

• Demonstration of the online tutorial, a major project deliverable – 15 mins

• Promotional video – 3 mins

• Questions

INTRODUCTORY SLIDES

Bibliometrics is..• Bibliometrics is one of various quantitative measures widely used to assess

research impact, based on analysis of publication and particularly citation counts

• Bibliometrics is being increasingly used at all levels: international and national benchmarking of universities and academic units within them; to assess particular research groups and their impact; and to assess individuals

• Some typical uses– a major element in world university rankings is based on citation impact– ranking of journals to decide where to publish– individuals including metrics in their CVs and grant applications.

• It is not a method that currently works well for research areas that are not based principally on journal articles as their channel of publication but is nevertheless applied widely and so it is crucial that all researchers are aware of the basics of bibliometrics and the full range of data sources, metrics and tools

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Bibliometrics skills are largely generic so lend themselves to collaboration

NDLR LInCS projects are collaborative – at least 3 partners required

Libraries moving into higher end researcher support and bibliometrics is one such area

B This new area of research skills support comes as library staffing and resourcing are declining – COLLABORATION is an obvious path to take

Various factors leading to the project

Academic libraries and units in partnership

Some project details• Project is funded by NDLR (broadly equivalent to JORUM) under Learning

Innovation Community Support Projects (LInCS) strand and we provide matching funding which is almost entirely from staff time.

• Well over 1,000 hours of staff time • 10k grant – software, professional design of branding, video production by

professional company, PR and launch items and promotion items, printing• UCD, DIT, NUIM and DCU are the partners, UCD is the lead partner• Original timeline was July – December 2010 but that was extended to end of

March 2011 – these things take a fair amount of time if not full time• We set out milestones and divided the work up into work packages each with a

leader who then formed up their own teams, brought in other staff as required and had local meetings – a lot of staff involved in the project overall

• We have managed the project with the Basecamp online environment and that has been overall a good thing – milestones set out, messages, writeboards, filestores etc

Basecamp - an online environment helps with 4 partners

Set up in dSpace and create web page front end

Ros Pan (project leader)

Branding

Mary Antonesa (Maynooth)

Upload all existing materials across partners to assess

Kathryn Smith (UCD)

Online tutorial development

Ellen Breen (DCU)

Workshop & presentation items

Ros Pan/Kathryn Smith (UCD)

Computer Science materials

Julia Barrett (UCD)

Work packages and leaders

Geography materials

May Antonesa/Ciaran Quinn (Maynooth)

Launch/PR/marketing

Ros Pan (project leader)

Shared production of materials for shared used • Open Access• Use a model which is– Granular i.e. in small units that you can put

together as you want to – Allow editing so you CAN add your own touches,

take out things you don’t have access to, customise the examples and so on

– RLO Reusable Learning Objects concept is very important

BibliometricsToolkit

Materials forworkshops & presentations

Lesson Plans

Online Tutorial

Lesson plansSuggestions on how to pick materials and pressent them for different time periods and topics.Includes powerpoint slides

Workshop and presentation materials70 items to pick and choose from

Worksheets, datasheets, posters, booklet, videos

Most can be edited to suit local needs

Creative Common license

Online tutorialOverviewJournal RankingPersonal bibliometrics

Articulate used to create this tutorial

Run HEAnet hosted version or download, customise and host locally

The Open Access bibliometrics toolkit

Online tutorial look and feel

The online tutorial

Complementary print materials

Video content

Exhibition posters

The MyRI webpage – the main access routewww.ndlr.ie/myri

dSpace presentation – the MyRI “Community”

The future

• User testing, feedback and adjustment• Marketing and advocacy campaign over time• Keep the material up to date – it is not task

and finish! As we now realise..• Extend the bibliometrics toolkit in various

directions – more subject tailored content• Build on a collaborative approach to academic

library information skills work in general, beyond this project - deliverables

Developing the Online Tutorial

•Development Team

•Software Platform

•Content Development

•Video Interviews

•Draft Build, Review

•Final Version

Software Platform?

•Web-based…..use existing template?

•Articulate Studio•Easy to use•Can create visually engaging content and interactions•Training available

Content Development

Video Interviews• Employed graduate

students• 6 interviewees• 4 main interviews

covered 3 questions• 3.5 hours edited down

to 11 short videos

Draft Build and Review• MyRI Team Review• User review– Minor amendments

(typos, links etc)– Some suggestions not

possible e.g. link between modules

– User feedback very positive

The online tutorial – Let’s take a look

PROMOTIONAL VIDEO - 3 MINShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx3qAmutDs

Final points• There is a workshop built around this set of materials– Exploring the extent of current re-use– Discussing the challenges of re-purposing Open

Access information skills learning objects– Build various lessons out of the MyRI materials– Wednesday, 2.20, Alumni Theatre at LSE

• We are sponsors of pre-conference dinner drinks – samples and freebies will be available then – Tuesday evening

• QUESTIONS….