Library Research Support Team

While I am at QUT I am mainly with the Library Research Support Team since my focus is on research support services and organisation. This team is a central library unit that works closely together with the liaison teams. 

The library research support team consists of the Research Support Manager, an Scholarly Communications Librarian, the University Copyright Officer, a Research Data Librarian, a Research Support Librarian and a Library Adviser for Research Support. That means almost all of them are working exclusively on research support strategies and services.

The team is in charge of, develops and supports Scholarly Publishing, Research Data Management, Research Skills Training and Consultations, and the Researchers' Toolkit.

It offers the following services and information:

• How to get published
• ORCID and author profiles
• Open Access (funding, advocacy
• Citation analysis and altmetrics 
• QUT ePrints (institutional repository)
• Data management planning
• Data storage
• Data publishing
• Research skills training
• Course IFN001: Advanced Information Research skills (AIRS) that is mandatory for all higher degree research students
• Research support consultations
• Researchers' toolkit with information about how to use advanced search strategies, evaluate quality literature, use reference management tools, undertake systematic reviews, manage data and more.

Read more about these services on https://www.library.qut.edu.au/research/

In the meeting with four of the team members I got to know much more about their work. I would like to mention what I found most interesting:

•  QUT ePrints, the university's institutional repository, was launched in 2003. It had a deposit mandate from the beginning, that means QUT required that researchers deposit all their publications (QUT was first in the world to have such a restrictive mandate).
• The Open Access fund (funding article processing charges) had a size of about 280,000 AUD (almost 200,000 Euro) in 2015. 
• If you want to get APC funding at QUT now, you need to store your data set as well, not only your publication.
• QUT will digitise older PhD theses.
• Research Data Finder is QUT's discovery service for research data created or collected by QUT researchers.
• Every high degree research student (Phd and research masters) has to have a data management plan ready when starting research.
• The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is a partnership led by Monash University and funded by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). ANDS' flagship service is the Research Data Australia discovery portal where you can find, access and reuse data for research from Australian research organisations, government agencies and cultural institutions. The core purpose is to make Australia’s research data assets more valuable for researchers, research institutions and the nation. See more at http://www.ands.org.au/