Academic Orientation Programme 2021. Researcher Visibility & Sharing our work beyond the University

Academic Orientation ◽

Creative Commons ◽

The University ◽

Researcher Identity

<p>This presentation introduces academics and researchers to the value of formal and informal technologies in promoting the visibility and discoverability of their online researcher identity. Topics covered in the presentation include Open Access, Creative Commons licensing, Institutional Repositories, Research Data Management, ORCID, Research Collaboration & Social Scholarship, Researcher impact &citation analysis, Social Media, and Altmetrics.</p>

Teaching Open Science

Open Science Talk ◽

10.7557/19.5368 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Helene N. Andreassen ◽

Erik Lieungh

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Data Management ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Open Science ◽

Research Data ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

The Arctic ◽

Learning Support ◽

In this episode, we are discussing how to teach open science to PhD students. Helene N. Andreassen, head of Library Teaching and Learning Support at the University Library of UiT the Arctic University of Norway shares her experiences with the integration of open science in a special, tailor-made course for PhD's that have just started their project. An interdisciplinary, discussion-based course, "Take Control of Your PhD Journey: From (P)reflection to Publishing" consists of a series of seminars on research data management, open access publishing and other subject matters pertaining to open science. First published online February 26, 2020.

Advances in Library and Information Science - Cases on Research Support Services in Academic Libraries ◽

“The Future Depends on What You Do Today”

10.4018/978-1-7998-4546-1.ch002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 25-51

Author(s):

Paul Ayris

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Citizen Science ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Research Integrity ◽

Open Science ◽

Research Data ◽

The Future ◽

University College London ◽

UCL (University College London) strongly supports the implementation of Open Science policies and practices. The library has taken the lead in the university across all eight areas of Open Science: the Future of Scholarly Communication, the EOSC, FAIR data, Skills, Research Integrity, Rewards, Altmetrics, and Citizen Science. UCL has modified these themes slightly to better fit its academic requirements, developing ambitious programmes and services to support the change of culture which is required. From the future of scholarly publishing, with the formation of UCL Press as the UK's first fully open access university press, to research data management, rewards, research integrity and next-generation metrics, UCL has become a leader in Open Science. This chapter analyses the success of UCL to date, describes the challenges, shows the benefits, and indicates what future steps are being planned to deliver a culture where Open Science is the default, thus delivering on the prophecy of Mahatma Ghandi, one of UCL's most illustrious alumni, ‘The future depends on what you do today'.

Archiving South African digital research data: How ready are we?

South African Journal of Science ◽

10.17159/sajs.2016/20150316 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol Volume 112 (Number 7/8) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margaret M. Koopman ◽

Karin de Jager ◽

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Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

South African ◽

Academic Research ◽

Research Data ◽

Digital Data ◽

Systematic Research ◽

Data Archiving ◽

The University ◽

Digital Research

Abstract Digital data archiving and research data management have become increasingly important for institutions in South Africa, particularly after the announcement by the National Research Foundation, one of the principal South African academic research funders, recommending these actions for the research that they fund. A case study undertaken during the latter half of 2014, among the biological sciences researchers at a South African university, explored the state of data management and archiving at this institution and the readiness of researchers to engage with sharing their digital research data through repositories. It was found that while some researchers were already engaged with digital data archiving in repositories, neither researchers nor the university had implemented systematic research data management.

Práticas e percepções dos pesquisadores brasileiros sobre serviços de acesso aberto a dados de pesquisa | Practices and perceptions of Brazilian researchers on open access to research data

Liinc em Revista ◽

10.18617/liinc.v15i2.4771 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Sonia Elisa Caregnato ◽

Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz ◽

Caterina Groposo Pavão ◽

Paula Caroline Jardim Schifino Passos ◽

Eduardo Borges ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Data Sharing ◽

Research Data ◽

Exploratory Analysis ◽

Data Reuse ◽

Open Research

RESUMO O artigo apresenta análise exploratória das práticas e das percepções a respeito do acesso aberto a dados de pesquisa embasada em dados coletados por meio de survey, realizada com pesquisadores brasileiros. As 4.676 respostas obtidas demonstram que, apesar do grande interesse pelo tema, evidenciado pela prevalência de variáveis relacionadas ao compartilhamento e ao uso de dados e aos repositórios institucionais, não há clareza por parte dos sujeitos sobre os principais tópicos relacionados. Conclui-se que, apesar da maioria dos pesquisadores afirmar que compartilha dados de pesquisa, a disponibilização desses dados de forma aberta e irrestrita ainda não é amplamente aceita.Palavras-chave: Dados Abertos de Pesquisa; Compartilhamento de Dados; Reuso de Dados.ABSTRACT This article presents an exploratory analysis of the practices and perceptions regarding open access to research data based on information collected by a survey with Brazilian researchers. The 4,676 responses show that, despite the great interest in the topic, evidenced by the prevalence of variables related to data sharing and use and to institutional repositories, there is no clarity on the part of the subjects on the main related topics. We conclude that, although the majority of the researchers share research data, the availability of this data in an open and unrestricted way is not yet widely accepted.Keywords: Open Research Data; Data Sharing; Data Reuse.

From Project to Strategic Vision: Taking the Lead in Research Data Management Support at the University of Sydney Library

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.316 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 253-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Belinda Norman ◽

Kate Valentine Stanton

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

Research Data ◽

Management Support ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Strategic Vision ◽

The Commons ◽

The University ◽

Project Partner

This paper explores three stories, each occurring a year apart, illustrating an evolution toward a strategic vision for Library leadership in supporting research data management at the University of Sydney. The three stories describe activities undertaken throughout the Seeding the Commons project and beyond, as the establishment of ongoing roles and responsibilities transition the Library from project partner to strategic leader in the delivery of research data management support. Each story exposes key ingredients that characterise research data management support: researcher engagement; partnerships; and the complementary roles of policy and practice.

Publisher's Comments

Journal of Biocommunication ◽

10.5210/jbc.v41i1.7539 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary Schnitz

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

Creative Commons ◽

Journal of Biocommunication 41-1 represents the second issue of the JBC published within the University of Illinois Chicago's Open Journal System. This issue combines traditionally licensed and copyrighted content with other content published under open-access (OA) Creative Commons licensing.

YAIR (Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository): How rethinking an open-source institutional repository is changing the visibility of faculty, students, and administration

College & Research Libraries News ◽

10.5860/crln.82.3.129 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

pp. 129

Author(s):

Stephanie L. Gross

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Open Access ◽

Faculty Development ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Institutional Repository ◽

Creative Commons ◽

Opt Out ◽

Cost Effective Alternative ◽

Strategic Imperative ◽

The director of libraries conceived of Yeshiva University’s institutional repository (IR) in 2018 in part as a cost-effective alternative to Digital Measures, a scholarly productivity tracking program used to determine faculty eligibility for tenure. It was mandated in Yeshiva University’s first Strategic Plan 2016-2010, under Strategic Imperative 2: Advance Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching and Research. The IR would be a secure, prestigious, university-sanctioned platform for showcasing, documenting, and sharing intellectual output across the globe. It was important that most of the work would be open access, with accompanying Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives licenses. In addition to faculty, undergraduate and graduate students would be given a platform to self-archive their intellectual output. Both faculty and students would have the option to opt-out from making their work public, or at least limiting the visibility to the university public only.

Open-access policy and data-sharing practice in UK academia

Journal of Information Science ◽

10.1177/0165551518823174 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 41-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yimei Zhu

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Data Sharing ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Open Science ◽

Research Data ◽

Academic Disciplines ◽

Free Access ◽

Online Publishing ◽

Access To Data

Data sharing can be defined as the release of research data that can be used by others. With the recent open-science movement, there has been a call for free access to data, tools and methods in academia. In recent years, subject-based and institutional repositories and data centres have emerged along with online publishing. Many scientific records, including published articles and data, have been made available via new platforms. In the United Kingdom, most major research funders had a data policy and require researchers to include a ‘data-sharing plan’ when applying for funding. However, there are a number of barriers to the full-scale adoption of data sharing. Those barriers are not only technical, but also psychological and social. A survey was conducted with over 1800 UK-based academics to explore the extent of support of data sharing and the characteristics and factors associated with data-sharing practice. It found that while most academics recognised the importance of sharing research data, most of them had never shared or reused research data. There were differences in the extent of data sharing between different gender, academic disciplines, age and seniority. It also found that the awareness of Research Council UK’s (RCUK) Open-Access (OA) policy, experience of Gold and Green OA publishing, attitudes towards the importance of data sharing and experience of using secondary data were associated with the practice of data sharing. A small group of researchers used social media such as Twitter, blogs and Facebook to promote the research data they had shared online. Our findings contribute to the knowledge and understanding of open science and offer recommendations to academic institutions, journals and funding agencies.

Scholarly Communication Practices in Humanities and Social Sciences: A Study of Researchers’ Attitudes and Awareness of Open Access

Open Information Science ◽

10.1515/opis-2018-0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 168-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bhuva Narayan ◽

Edward J. Luca ◽

Belinda Tiffen ◽

Ashley England ◽

Mal Booth ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Media ◽

Open Access ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Academic Librarians ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Change Perceptions ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Journal Impact

Abstract This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a survey research design, we collected data from academics and other researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a university in Australia. We looked at factors influencing choice of publishers and journal outlets, as well as the use of social media and nontraditional channels for scholarly communication. We used an online questionnaire to collect data and used descriptive statistics to analyse the data. Our findings suggest that researchers are highly influenced by traditional measures of quality, such as journal impact factor, and are less concerned with making their work more findable and promoting it through social media. This highlights a disconnect between researchers’ desired outcomes and the efforts that they put in toward the same. Our findings also suggest that institutional policies have the potential to increase OA awareness and adoption. This study contributes to the growing literature on scholarly communication by offering evidence from the HASS field, where limited studies have been conducted. Based on the findings, we recommend that academic librarians engage with faculty through outreach and workshops to change perceptions of OA and the institutional repository.