Reinventing Library Research Support Services at Griffith University

Abstract

Griffith University provides advice and services to researchers around research grants, ethics and integrity, research performance, and publications and outputs. A broad-based researcher education and development program helps inform and upskill researchers and research students. From 2019, Griffith University Library has developed new services to support data-driven, data-intensive research and assist researchers through the entire research lifecycle. This chapter describes the staffing structure and the ideas underpinning a new service catalogue based around key areas, such as data management, open scholarship, and data wrangling. Methods to achieve this included a collaboratively developed knowledge base, the development of new workshops, mapping of research environments and referral pathways, and developing support for researchers for whom there is no established tool for the kinds of research they want to do. A push to establish the library as a vital and valued partner in research projects was a key driver for change.

Current status of research support services in university libraries of Pakistan

“…Research and publishing have become strategic priorities in university libraries because of the pressure on universities to improve their rankings through research and educational excellence (Riera Quintero et al , 2012; Si et al , 2019; Weaver and Richardson, 2021). As a result, research support services (RSS) emerged throughout the world but particularly in the university libraries of the UK, USA, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, where the provision of research support to researchers became a necessary part of the university libraries’ core services (Larsen et al , 2010).…”