skills and competences of research librarians. the uoc experience #liasa2013
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Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience. A presentation for LIASA 15th Annual Conference 2013 by Rosa Padrós Cuxart, Clara Riera Quintero & Anna Zuñiga Ruiz.TRANSCRIPT
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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
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• 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
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Organisational structure
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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
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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
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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
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UOC research tools
• CRIS: GIR (Software: Universitas XXI)• OSRT Intranet• O2 Institutional Repository• UOC Research and innovation website
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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
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Research librarian competences 1/2
• Virtual reference• Scholarly Resources Knowledge• Data expert• Bibliometric knowledge• Statistics• Research Performance Measurement• Publishing sector: guidance
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Research librarian competences 2/2
• Journal Indexing Criteria• IT Skills• Social Networking• Copyright, Licensing & Open Access• Digital preservation policies
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Research librarian skills 1/2
• Strategic Orientation• Proactivity• Interpersonal Skills in a Virtual Environment• Cross-Disciplinary
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Research librarian skills 2/2
• Communication Skills• Social/Community Skills• Teamwork• Virtual Teaching & Training Skills
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UOC Library Research Support Services in line with the research lifecycle:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Standardization of authors’ names
• Service to handle standardization of authors’ names in the different databases
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Open-access publication of doctoral theses service
• UOC’s O2 institutional repository
• Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Doctoral Theses on the Web, TDX) cooperative repository
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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
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BENEFITS for the Virtual Library
• Increased Visibility Inside the University• New Services Deployment• Professional Development• Better Perception of The Library Services by
the Researcher
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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 [email protected] Riera Quintero [email protected] Zuñiga Ruiz [email protected]
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Thank you!Thank you!
LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013