Research support services provided by UQ Library

As I have already mentioned I had a very interesting meeting with Amberyn, the Associate Director for the Scholarly Communication and Repository Section.
If you have had a look at the organisational chart, you could see that there are three groups in this section: one for scholarly publications, one for research outputs & impact and one for UQ eSpace, the institutional repository. Altogether there are 16 people working in this section, plus the director and two people for project work.

They have also started with just two or three colleagues about 10-15 years ago and now they are growing and have lots of work to do and new services to develop.
So if we at NTNU want to provide good research support services, we gradually need to employ more staff or develop necessary skills of present staff .

A few words about the three groups:

• The Scholarly Publishing group provides Publishing advice (where to publish), Open Access advice, and training and support in these areas. This group is also working on Digital Publishing initiatives.
• The Research Outputs and Impact group provides Training and Advice for Research Metrics and Research Data Management. The group also offers Grant-writing support and is in charge of UQ collaborative publication reports. In addition this group helps with Research Data Management planning and publishing. It is worth to mention that the group provides about 80 reports per year, and it is the biggest group of the three with eight colleagues (incl. the manager).
• UQ eSpace  is the institutional repository of The University of Queensland. It collects and manages research outputs, research data, special collections and research higher degree theses (Master and PhD). This group also provides publication data and metrics for government reporting, researcher profiles and internal measures.

At the moment UQ Library is also working on a project called "Research Data Management Infrastructure Project".

Some other interesting momentums from my talk with Amberyn:

The starting point for research services are the following global drivers: university rankings & performance metrics; innovation and impact; Open Access and Open Scholarship; and research integrity & data validation.
Open Access is not mandatory at UQ and there is no Open Access fund.
There is a triage model for Service Delivery and Training (thanks to Amberyn for providing me with a fantastic presentation about these topics!). I think this model is really interesting and could be used at NTNU University Library as well!



In Amberyn's presentation there was also a slide with the Research Lifecycle and points where UQ Library "touches", that means where the library can provide support (red circles around the possible library services are unfortunately lacking in the copy of this lifecycle). Anyway, if someone is interested to have a look at her great presentation, I have both a print copy and a pdf-file.




There are also LibGuides about research impact and metrics, grant applications and promotions etc. Have a look here for more information:
http://guides.library.uq.edu.au/grants-promotions
 

Finally some figures about the content of the UQ repository:

• 35733 Open Access items
• 145088 Journal articles
• 49914 Conference papers
• 17282 Theses
• 6852 Books
• 14409 Book Chapters
• 7062 Images