Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wayne Morse
Co-Director, The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Emory University
Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services (Bryant, Namachchivaya)
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
Presentation (Bryant)
The Evolution Cycle of Digital Scholarship Centers (Morse)
Three years after the creation of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, our policies and practices are still evolving. What we initially saw as a linear progression of evolution, is in reality, a cycle of continuous fine-tuning of the center’s models for faculty and student support. Building on information shared at the 2014 CNI digital scholarship center workshop, similar elements of focus for centers have been identified. In 2015, we partnered with librarians from Georgia State University’s CURVE and hypothesized that these elements of focus, or factors, were linear, directly related to a center’s maturity. After comparing the level of importance for each factor between both the public and private institutions, we discovered that the factors were interconnected in more of a circular path: regardless of maturity, each factor had to be addressed for the center to make positive impacts in the area of digital scholarship. We will share more on the discovery and get feedback on the evolution cycle hypothesis.
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/
http://researchdataservice.illinois.edu/
http://go.illinois.edu/irc
http://digitalscholarship.emory.edu
Presentation (Morse)