A Case Study of Librarian Outreach to Scientists: Collaborative Research and Scholarly Communication in Conservation Biology

Adams, Tina; Bullard, Kristen

doi:10.1080/10691316.2014.925415

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“…Additionally, faculties are often required to provide metrics throughout the promotion and tenure process to measure their engagement and impact within their discipline. Because they are unaware that librarians can assist with compiling and analyzing these types of bibliometric data, they do not receive training on how to properly gather the scholarly metrics used in these decisions (Adams & Bullard, 2014;Galloway, Pease, & Rauh, 2013). Furthermore, with the scholarly communication environment continually evolving, providing workshops to keep faculty up-to-date on new and emerging trends was another opportunity for librarians to participate.…”

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Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

DeBose¹,

Haugen²,

Miller³

2017

Library Trends

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When developing instructional programs related to information literacy at a university, a logical audience to focus on is undergraduates. However, information literacy spans far beyond the traditional ability to find, access, evaluate, use, and properly cite information. It also encompasses the ability to evaluate the impact of scholarship, determine appropriate data-management practices, understand author rights, promote ethical use of scholarship, and maintain an awareness of changes in scholarly communication. Between 2010 and 2016 librarians at Virginia Tech have focused on developing programs to strengthen several of these information literacy skills across the continuum of students, faculty, and extension agents in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Starting with undergraduates, traditional information literacy skills were incorporated into the two CALS First-Year Experience programs. A scientific writing workshop and online information literacy course were designed for CALS graduate students. Extension agents and faculty were introduced to both traditional and more advanced applications to explore how changes in the information landscape impacts their work. This paper will discuss how these librarians have partnered to create and promote these information literacy initiatives.

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Section: Facultymentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

DeBose¹,

Haugen²,

Miller³

2017

Library Trends

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“…Intra-university engagement between librarians and academics for this purpose has been well-established since the 1990s, and has often taken the form of collaborative teaching of information research and academic skills for undergraduates (Haynes, 1996;Smith, 2011;Wilkes, Godwin, & Gurney, 2015). There has also been an increasing trend towards institution-wide collaborations which emphasise the intertwined nature of research, writing and disciplinary content (Adams & Bullard, 2014;Einfalt & Turley, 2013).…”

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Opportunities for intra-university collaborations in the new research environment

Steel

Thompson

Wright

2018

Higher Education Research & Development

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New opportunities for research collaborations within universities are explored through reflection on a recent collaboration between an academic researcher, the library and the eResearch Centre at a regional Australian university. Such opportunities arise from significant changes to the research landscape, including increased emphasis on open access publication of research outputs and the growth of eResearch capabilities. The latter has resulted in increases in data size and complexity and provides opportunities for collaboration across research institutions. This article reflects on the dynamics and assesses the outcomes of a collaboration formed during an externally funded open research data project. This project and a precursor project are briefly described, together with the specific contribution of each collaborator. Collaboration dynamics and the reasons for project success are assessed, as are implications for future research practice. Outcomes from eResearch collaborations may provide broader benefits to universities, as well as rewards to academic researchers.

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“…26 Adams and Bullard went a step further and created a short course in Social Media enabled scientific communication for conservation biologists that included altmetrics. 27 This course provided basic information on existing altmetric tools at the time the course was offered as well as collaboration tools and open access scholarly communication. However, the course did not identify which tools would maximize impact using altmetrics.…”

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Using Altmetrics as an Engineering Faculty Outreach Tool

Nelson¹

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Engineering faculty members are increasingly looking at the pros and cons of the number of research communication tools that are available but are overwhelmed by the variety and lack of evidence that the tools will have a positive influence on research impact, promotion, and tenure. Engineering faculty are drawn to altmetrics for a more complete picture of real world impact while simultaneously dubious of the validity of these emerging measures. This paper reviews the literature on altmetric tools, identifies the existing tools, as well as pros and cons of using those tools. The author investigates how the tools can be used to create an outreach service for faculty members in engineering that supports disciplinary faculty to strategically design an online presence for research impact. IntroductionWhere researchers have looked to traditional journal based metrics in the past as an indication of the impact of their scholarly work, increasingly print presents limited information about the much more dynamic environments of internet based communication platforms such as Twitter, networking sites such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate, or even aggregators such as Google Scholar.1 In the past ten years researchers have had alternative means to publicize their research using social media and other web based tools. A category of tools that measure impacts and statistics of usage and viewing based on the Social Web are referred to as altmetrics.2 Altmetrics present an alternative to journal based metrics such as impact factor, Eigenvalues, and other print based algorithms or measures. 3The basic functions of online scientific communication via the social web include collaboration, searching for relevant content, documenting original materials, promoting one's work, building peer networks, extracting and organizing information, and conducting peer reviews.4,5 Scientific and professional communication online supports diversity in the sciences and engineering. It provides a platform for role models from diverse backgrounds to connect with new scientists and engineers.6 Online scientific communication also allows individuals in specialized areas dispersed over a wide geographic area to easily communicate as a discipline in a designated virtual environment. 4 It gives a venue for identifying and/or purchasing parts, information on user opinions or demographic information, and competitor information.7 Social media can also enable geographically dispersed design teams to complete projects using asynchronous and synchronous communication. Taking advantage of these functions requires scientists and engineers to communicate strategically. The variety of social web tools available each offer different functions and utilities. 4 Similarly, different altmetric tools measure the impact of different social web tools. Just as liaison librarians presented faculty members with journal based metrics and helped them to frame their impact for promotion and tenure cases, liaisons can also assist professors to understand the emerging social ...

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A Case Study of Librarian Outreach to Scientists: Collaborative Research and Scholarly Communication in Conservation Biology

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

Opportunities for intra-university collaborations in the new research environment

Using Altmetrics as an Engineering Faculty Outreach Tool

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