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Rebecca ParkerSwinburne University of Technology, Australia

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

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Refrigerators (1856)

Electric drills (1889)

Notepads (1902)

Feature films (1906)

Ugg boots (1920s)

Electronic pacemaker (1928)

Splayd (1943)

Hills Hoist clothesline (1945)

Solar hot water (1953)

Black box flight recorder (1958)

Plastic spectacle lenses (1960)

Ultrasound (1961)

Inflatable escape slides (1965)

Power boards (1972)

Bionic ear (1979)

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.

Samantha Schmehl Hines,University of Montana (2013)

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Publishingsupport

Copyright

Metrics

Data management

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Researchers’attitudes

are changing

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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

Four-stage model of the research lifecycle

Source:Research Information Network (2010). Research support in 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 expertise

Wikipedian protester (xkcd)

Source: http://xkcd.com/285/Licensed for reuse under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

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Partnerships

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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

- 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

us

- Cloud computing

- 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

- Grants management

- Research performance analysis

- Government research reporting

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Research Office

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Information

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

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Not just for open access

(in fact,not the primary focusat all)

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Information (re)use

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Information (re)use

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Information literacy

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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 understanding of both the generic and the specialist tools that are relevant to

their research area

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Scholarly comms

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4. Help with publishing results

in scholarly journals

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Greeninstitutional repositories

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Goldopen access journals

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Hybrid‘paid open access’

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Evilvanity publishers

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.

Open access availability by discipline (2009)

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 funding and metrics

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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

Swinburne Research reporting

- 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 data

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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 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.

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Data helps with research integrity

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

Emma, please insert NMR [nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy] data here! where are they? and for this compound, just make up an elemental analysis.

“”* Actual notes on a published paper

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Is it oknot to

know theanswer?

[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 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.

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Acknowledgements

My wise research librariancolleagues aroundAustralia and NZ

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for inviting me to speak today

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Where to next?

Rebecca 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.