Following a recent update from Thomson-Reuters you may like to be aware that search results in Google Scholar now show links to the citations of each record in Web of Science.

This may prove useful for students and researchers in identifying further, high quality references and in luring them into Web of Science where they can rank their search results by times cited.

Peter Lund

The University has now adopted a Policy of Mandatory Deposit in the UC Research Repository. This has come into effect from 20 October 2014 and coincides with International Open Access Week. The aim of this policy is to increase the visibility, impact and accessibility of UC research by increasing the number of deposits made to the repository.

The UC Library’s goal is to increase the volume of research outputs uploaded to the repository. Until this week, deposits were voluntary and the rate of deposit was around 8-12%. The repository has had 1.5 million downloads in the seven years it has been active. With this high visitor rate, increasing the volume of deposits will be of benefit to the profile of UC as an institution as well as being of benefit to the reputation of its researchers. Please support the policy and advocate for open access with researchers and students. Benefits of the policy are:

Benefits for researchers:

1. The global visibility and accessibility of their work will increase
2. An increase in citation counts, PBRF and research funding
3. Enhance connections and collaborative opportunities with the global research community
4. Address funder focus on citation counts when assessing funding proposals
5. Address trend by funders that requires research be published in Open Access format
6. Enhanced support for researchers during the research lifecycle
7. Improved access to full bibliography of research by individual researchers for funding purposes

Benefits for UC:

1. Increase the global visibility of UC and its research community.
2. Increase PBRF and QS rankings, and research funding
3. Enhance UC’s profile as a research-led learning institution – which will attract students and researchers to the institution
4. Increase UC’s credibility in a competitive global research environment

The term “mandatory” in relation to this policy means that while UC researchers are expected, where appropriate, to submit suitable versions of their work (normally post-print accepted manuscripts), though they can opt out of doing so. Reasons for opting out could include:

• issues around privacy
• intellectual property rights
• copyright
• a prior contract with a journal
• or another explicit concern that makes it impractical to deposit into the repository.

Research is core business at UC. Ensuring research outputs are prominent and easily accessible is important in terms of ensuring UC’s researchers and the work they produce is globally visible. It also helps to maintain UC’s reputation as a research-led learning institution.

Starting this week, research publications will be collected through Profiler at the same time as they are submitted into a researcher’s PRBF portfolio.

The UC Library and Research & Innovation have run an education campaign on the policy with key stakeholder groups. This group includes: Colleges, faculty boards, departments, Postgraduate Office, Research Committee, Library Committee, SMT, and Academic Board.

All relevant material relating to the policy, and where researchers can go for further support, will be available to staff/students through the UC Library website including an FAQ.

Material for the Repository will be collected through Profiler at the same time as it is submitted into a researcher’s PRBF portfolio. An opt out function will be available at this stage of the process.

Anton Angelo and members of the Resource Discovery team will take care of all copyright and contract issues when submissions are made.

Here is the Faculty meetings report for October. Some of the topics being discussed are:

raising the preferential entry level for students from 120 to 150 points to exceed Victoria and Otago
teaching spaces on Dovedale will be more constrained for 2015 with Engineering students being taught there and classes will be scheduled until 7pm
the Library was noted in the Arts report as a source of advice and assistance for staff in relation to improving the student experience
Cuiying has organised a workshop for academic staff on how to improve research impact which will include citations tools, citation report, journal impact, tips to increase citation counts
Law School have agreed to keep only one copy of all items published before 2004.

Peter Lund

At next week’s LIANZA conference in Auckland Anton Angelo and I will be presenting a paper entitled An evolving business model for scholarly publishing: exploring the payment of article processing charges (APCs) to achieve open access. We’ll be practicing our presentation at:

2pm on Friday 10th October in Puaka James Hight room 210. This dress rehearsal will last for 30 minutes.

If anyone wants a sneaky peek at our untried version we’d love to have you come along on Friday. Though do check with you manager first.

We’ll also be aiming to present this as a staff development event in the future and our LIANZA conference paper will be uploaded to the UC Research Repository shortly.

Peter Lund

Here is the Faculty meetings report for September. There’s a variety of topics being discussed including: the proposal to reduce the German literature collection in Arts. Science and Engineering considered options for aligning the Academic Year 2016 with school holidays whilst Education discussed the pros and cons of accepting money from the alcohol industry. Commerce discussed internationalization and there is a new marketing campaign for the School of Law “Real Law.”

Peter Lund

Here are notes from Faculty meetings attended this month by Liaison Librarians and Flexible Learning Advisors.

Topics discussed this month include:

Graduate attributes
QS Rankings
Feedback on the Library’s support for Learning and Teaching

Peter Lund

Following my attendance at Tangata tû, tangata ora last week I vowed to have another go at setting up my keyboard for Mâori language and have now succeeded. I’m sure this info will be useful to others in the Library and actually it’s pretty straightforward when you know what to do. So here’s how:

Start menu-Control panel-programs-run advertised programs-Highlight “UC Mâori Language keyboard”-Click on run

Then restart your computer.

To type a macron in Word or email hit the `key (ie the tilda key) located to the left of the 1 on the keyboard before typing the vowel you need the macron for.

And bingo!

It doesn’t seem to work in Counterculture

Peter Lund

The Australian National Data Service are hosting a webinar on Tuesday 13th May 2pm NZ time. Some Liaison Librarians have already registered to attend this webinar – this is to let you know that I’ve booked Discussion room 2 in EPS Library so that we can attend together – it gives us a chance to discuss it afterwards.

For those of you who haven’t registered but might still like to attend you are welcome to come along (though please check with your manager first).

Peter Lund

Here’s a trailer of what it’s all about…

“Becoming a data librarian – everything you wanted to know …”

Data Librarian, Data Services Specialist, eResearch Specialist …these job titles are becoming increasingly common in libraries across the higher education and research sector. And for many librarians, data management is, or is likely to become, a component of their role. So, what do these roles involve? What challenges and opportunities does data management offer librarians?

Come along to the webinar and hear three librarians talk about their experience working in the area of research data management. How did they get involved? What do their roles involve? What skills and experience did they bring to the role? What new skills did they need to acquire? How do they see their role evolving?

Our presenters will be:
–Philippa Broadley, Research Data Librarian, QUT
–David Groenewegen, Director, Research Infrastructure, Monash University
–Cathy Miller, Research Data Librarian, The University of Adelaide

Register at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/210782063 (not necessary if you’re coming to EPS Library as we’ll all be participating together)

We hope to “see” you there!

———————————————–
Gerry Ryder
Research Data Analyst
Australian National Data Service
Postal Address: c/o CSIRO
PMB 2, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064
AUSTRALIA

Liaison Librarians are busy creating Subject Level Collection Statements which indicate collection strengths across around 39 subject areas. These statements will describe how the Library’s collections support the learning, teaching and research needs of scholars in each subject discipline. Each statement will be used to develop the collection, to inform the acquisition of new resources and, where appropriate, to inform decisions on withdrawals from the collection. They augment the Information Resources policy which outlines the overarching principles and general framework that informs the strategies and procedures related to the Library’s information resources.

When completed and agreed with members of the Academic department the Subject Level Collection Statements will be found with the Library’s policies. The Mâori Classroom Collection and Te Kohikohika Mâori statement is the first one to be agreed and added to the website and others will be added in due course.

This year the Library will be running an expanded series of workshops supporting researchers. Liaison Librarians will be contributing these workshops to a wider programme in collaboration with Research & Innovation. We’ve created 5 Library workshops under a research support heading, each workshop lasting around 50 minutes:

• Are you being cited? Tools for measuring your research impact
• Collaboration tools for research
• Endnote for researchers
• Keeping current using email alerts, RSS feeds and social bookmarking tools
• Open access and the changing nature of scholarly publishing

If any of these topics are of interest we’d love to see you attend (just click the link to register) but do consult your manager first.

Peter Lund