Beyond data management plans, creative data services in libraries

How does the current reward system reflect how we value research? Is a reform of this system necessary to encourage researchers to engage in open science activities? How do current and proposed reward systems support early career researchers?

Questions on how academics' careers and contributions are assessed and valued are under discussion. This webinar brings together a panel of experts on open science and career assessment to focus on the current reward system and the potential for its reform. This promises to be a lively exchange of ideas between representatives of Eurodoc, Young Academy of Europe, and Elsevier. The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of possible changes to how we consider academic value, retain mobility internationally and beyond academia, and create incentives for open science activities.

Join our panel of experts as they discuss this timely topic.

Introduction from Nick Fowler, Chief Academic Officer, Elsevier

Panelists
Moniek Tromp, Chair of Materials Chemistry of the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Matthew DiFranco, Chief Scientific Officer, ImageBiopsy Lab
Véronique De Herde, PhD Candidate at UCLouvain, Belgium and Secretariat Coordinator and Open Science Ambassador for Eurodoc
Andrew Plume, Senior Director of Research Evaluation at Elsevier and Chair of the ICSR Advisory Board

Moderator
Stephane Berghmans, Vice President, Academic & Research Relations EU, Elsevier

Find out more about how Elsevier partners with the research community to empower open science. https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science

Due to the shift in working remotely, Elsevier has put together several different options to access research data. This webinar provides librarians with step-by-step instructions and tips to share with researchers and students on various options including the benefits of each.


Access Methods
•Federated access (SAML-based authentication, Shibboleth, OpenAthens, SSO)
•Email domain confirmation access
•IP address range / VPN
•Proxy
•Registration ID
•CASA - ScienceDirect specific
•Institutional instructions - a message to a user
•Guest - not institutional access, open to all

A word about…
•Access management
•Identity management
•Customer support

If you cannot attend this live webinar, register to get access to the recorded webinar that you can view at your convenience and share with your users.

Due to the shift in working remotely, Elsevier has put together several different options to access research data. This webinar provides librarians with step-by-step instructions and tips to share with researchers and students on various options including the benefits of each.

Access Methods
•Federated access (SAML-based authentication, Shibboleth, OpenAthens, SSO)
•Email domain confirmation access
•IP address range / VPN
•Proxy
•Registration ID
•CASA - ScienceDirect specific
•Institutional instructions - a message to a user
•Guest - not institutional access, open to all

A word about…
•Access management
•Identity management
•Customer support

If you cannot attend the live webinar, register to get access to the recorded webinar to watch at your convenience and share with your users.

Better workflow, big impact!

A large pain point for researchers is having time to stay up to date in their field, conduct their own research and administer their work. Librarians can have a tremendous impact on their success by providing access to and promoting helpful tools, and teaching best practices in knowledge search, creation and management.

In this webinar, a recent PhD graduate will discuss the student perspective on learning about the research workflow, highlighting areas of success and how the library played an important role in the journey. And two librarians who will explore their role in enabling the effective collaboration of research teams and ensuring researchers have the skills to manage their research data.

TOPICS

• Introducing and encouraging use of research tools
• Strategies for discovering and analyzing peer-reviewed literature while working remotely
• Community engagement as a way to build your CV
• Systematic reviews and journal clubs for research teams - remote and face to face support
• Data literacy driving FAIR data practices
• Building your RDM skills and delivering services remotely


SPEAKERS

Rebecca Morin
Head of Research and Instruction
Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University

Potenza Atiogbe
Multiprofessional Education and Library Services Manager
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals
NHS Trust, Sutton, UK

Kristina Hopkins
2018 PhD Science Education, Columbia University
Customer Consultant, Elsevier

Authority often leads to opportunity

Employers, funders and collaborators need to be aware of and trust in the foundation for that authority before the opportunity actualizes.

Librarians play an important role in establishing that evidence for both their researchers and institutions. Learn more in this one-hour webinar, where four librarian presenters will discuss how they:

• Advise researchers on curating their academic and author profiles
• Preserve and provide access to research and scholarship
• Present faculty workshops on research impact and other initiatives
• Promote, support and track open access​

With examples from Scopus, Expert Gallery Suite and other solutions.


Presenters:

Denise Brush, Engineering and Earth Sciences Librarian, Rowan University Libraries
Jonathan Jiras, Technology Services Librarian, Rowan University Libraries
Rachel Miles, Research Impact Librarian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, University Medical Center Groningen

Librarians have been at the forefront in promoting open access publishing options and informing their researchers about the open access landscape. Open access is increasingly recognized as embedded within the larger framework of open science. Consequently, library and librarian roles are expanding into new areas such as open data, open educational resources and open infrastructure.

In this webinar, Elsevier product managers will present tools that enable more inclusive, collaborative and transparent research.

TOPICS:

•The library as publisher of OERs and OA journals with Digital Commons
•Open access content discovery in ScienceDirect and Scopus
•Open journal metrics: CiteScore, SNIP and SJR
•Publishing research outputs openly in Mendeley Data and SSRN

Reference, subject, liaison, research support, outreach ... these are librarian roles that are constantly evolving in sync with the needs of their core constituencies. In this webinar, three librarians will discuss their research into and experience of learning new skills and launching new services for today's research community.

• Overview of the current state of reference and liaison librarianship based on an extensive literature review
• Interesting ways librarians are working to remain visible and connected to students and faculty
• Aligning to meet researcher needs – old work vs. new work
• Applying the power of metrics in telling the story of research impact
• Launching a research cafe to enhance scholarly sharing and community engagement
• Research support activities that liaison librarians can get involved in

A library lens on the Ithaka S+R US 2018 Faculty Survey results

Would you like to explore opportunities to evolve or shape new library services based on quantitative data? Join us for a presentation of the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey. The presenters will share insights into faculty research, teaching and publishing practices, and ideas for how librarians could incorporate this knowledge into the design of programs and services.

In the 2018 survey cycle, Ithaka S+R expanded coverage of new issues including learning analytics, open educational resources, and evolving scholarly communication models. The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has tracked the changing research, teaching and publishing practices of higher education faculty members and perception of the role of the library since 2000.

TOPICS:

• Faculty practices in the discovery of new and relevant literature
• Support services for data management and preservation
• Research publication and dissemination processes
• Emerging practices with open educational resources and learning analytics
• Perception of the library’s contribution to student success
• Faculty ratings of various library functions

PRESENTERS:

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Manager, Surveys and Research, Ithaka S+R
Melissa Blankstein, Surveys Analyst, Ithaka S+R

In this instructional webinar, you’ll learn more about the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 (COP5), which goes into effect in January 2019. Lorraine Estelle, COUNTER Project Director, will highlight key points in the development of the new release, touching on metric types and new reports. Then Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova, COUNTER Executive Committee and Director Analytics, Elsevier, will take you step-by-step through the new reports and familiarize you with their use cases. If you cannot attend the live webinar, be sure to register so that you will have access to the recorded webinar to view at your convenience and share with your colleagues.

TOPICS:

•Introduction to COUNTER COP5
•How COUNTER COP5 will address future needs and stay relevant
•New metric types and how they work
•New reports and common use cases
•Step-by-step instructions on each of the new reports

PRESENTERS:

Lorraine Estelle, COUNTER Project Director
Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova, COUNTER Executive Committee

In this webinar librarians will illustrate how they are helping to develop research ecosystems and services, and apply tools and training for open science. Discover lessons learned from an Open Educational Resources (OER) pilot project and the development of an open access journals program at a university. Find out how another library introduced a culture of open science as they outline best practices around the development of their university’s research support and open science services. Lastly explore open science in terms of cross-sector collaboration from persistent identifiers to standard file formats and vocabularies.

TOPICS
•Introduction of research support and open science services at one of the largest universities in Finland
•Main steps of management and leadership processes in building up open science services
•Overview of an Open Educational Resources (OER) pilot project at a private university
•Developing and publishing two open access journals on the Digital Commons platform, one with student editors and one with an international team of faculty
•Standards, initiatives and practices that make existing research artifacts — methods, code, data, discussions, comments, annotations and more — discoverable and interoperable

PRESENTERS

Helena Silvennoinen-Kuikka, Head of Learning and Information Services, University of Eastern Finland Library

Michele Gibney, Digital Repository Coordinator, University of the Pacific

Corey Harper, Technology Research Director, Elsevier Labs

Michael Lauruhn, Technology Research Director, Elsevier Labs

Join our librarian presenters in this webinar as they share their unique stories about library value starting with themes that resonate with their stakeholders.

They will discuss how it is important to measure and communicate the impact of library resources in terms of value of investment (VOI) rather than just return on investment (ROI). They will show examples of how to work with individual researchers and departments to spotlight their efforts and initiatives via better understanding, assessment, visualization and reporting of impactful outcomes of research and clinical care. And they will show how institutions can come together to pool data and share a powerful report on the impact of library instruction on student retention and academic success.

TOPICS

• Going beyond usage to impact of resources
• Tips for setting up an assessment program
• Tracking publications with a full range of metrics
• Enhancing research impact and the visibility of research
• The impact of information literacy on student success
• Connecting library programs to campus priorities such as student retention


PRESENTERS

Melissa Bowles-Terry, Head of Educational Initiatives, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Melissa Goertzen, Consultant and Information Manager

Karen Gutzman, Impact and Evaluation Librarian, Northwestern University Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center

Join our presenters as they share their experiences and best practices for implementing research data management (RDM) solutions on campus and discuss examples of workflows that have enhanced reproducibility.

This webinar is based on a workshop the presenters participated in at this year's Research Data Access & Preservation Summit. They will share what works, where in the workflow to best approach stakeholders, how to achieve optimum uptake and researcher engagement, and how to handle or treat situations where intellectual property (IP) or data sensitivity issues arise. They will discuss best practices for dataset curation and ways libraries can facilitate data sharing.

TOPICS

- Tools, services and expertise that enhance RDM
- Gaining institution-wide stakeholder, marketing and outreach support
- Reaching and engaging the graduate students and researchers
- Identifying a clear strategy for RDM services
- Point-of-immediate-need services vs. advanced project planning
- Data collaboration solutions and data repository tools


PRESENTERS

- Jen Darragh, Senior Research Data Management Consultant, Duke University
- Wendy Kozlowski, Data Curation Specialist, Cornell University
- Jean Shipman, Vice President, Global Library Relations, Elsevier
- Mike Jones, Senior Product Manager, Mendeley Data

Join our librarian presenters to learn how they are using a variety of tactics and tools to showcase their institution's research. Discover how they work with stakeholders from researchers to the research office to raise the visibility of scholarly outputs, and the library's profile at the same time.

Are you interested in exploring how you might work with faculty one-to-one on enriching their profiles? Learn how one librarian is establishing new services by incorporating a variety of author-level metrics into the university’s ecosystem. Or are you interested in expanding the scope of research outputs shared? See how an escholarship librarian is working with faculty to share their data in its many forms. Finally, get an enterprise-level perspective on repurposing institutional data on research outputs to inform external communications and internal reporting.

TOPICS

•Incorporate altmetrics into a faculty consultation service
•Explore new ways to share and expand the reach of faculty research
•Enrich an annual report with data from the university’s scholarship
•Update websites with data feeds on research outputs
•Support scholars throughout the research lifecycle
•Highlight data in various forms from rich images to solid modeling

PRESENTERS

Jan Fransen, Service Lead for Research Information Management and Discovery Systems, University of Minnesota Libraries

Andy Herzog, Dept. Head of Faculty Services and Online Engagement, University of Texas Arlington Libraries

Maureen Schlangen, E-scholarship and Communications Manager, Roesch Library, University of Dayton

Discover how librarians are enriching their reports and presentations to key library stakeholders with multimedia and data visualizations. Get ideas on how to give library users a platform to tell their stories about the library. Learn more about tools that can help you gain insight into and share information about your institution's research activities and performance.

Registration is required for this live webinar. It will be broadcast internationally and includes time to ask the presenters questions during the session. The webinar is a complimentary event and part of Elsevier's Library Connect program for academic, medical, corporate and government librarians.

Cannot attend on November 16? Register for the webinar and you will be notified when it can be viewed online after the event.

Join us for an overview of a complimentary analytics dashboard available to you as a librarian whose institution subscribes to Elsevier products and tools. Elsevier Product Insights for Customers (E-PIC) offers a unique view of your institution's engagement with Elsevier's research content and tools. These insights on product usage and your researchers’ collaboration and impact can help inform your library decision making and enhance messaging to your library stakeholders. Find out why librarians using the E-PIC dashboard describe it as a one-stop shop for analysis, user-friendly and highly visual.

The webinar presenters will provide an overview of APIs (application programming interfaces - see definition below) and a broad look at various use cases within the library from updating library systems to conducting research or facilitating access for other researchers.

Specific use cases include using an API for text mining (clinical applications) and using APIs to update an institutional repository.

The webinar is meant for librarians who do not currently have a strong technical background, but who want to familiarize themselves with the technology and its applications.

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An API is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. In other words, an API is the messenger that delivers your request to the provider that you’re requesting it from and then delivers the response back to you. -- Shana Pearlman, MuleSoft Blog

"What if researchers — particularly those new to certain disciplines or to research itself — could have a Wikipedia-like experience that was streamlined and trusted?" This is the question that led two neuroscientists on a fascinating journey to improve literature search, from exploring users' needs to applying cutting edge technologies.

Students in an introductory and a higher-level class were assessed to determine where they were doing their research, their comfort level with reading reviews and primary literature, how frequently they came across unfamiliar terms, and how they handled cases where they needed additional clarity. Then they were provided the beta version of ScienceDirect Topics, an enhancement to the database that provides links within journal articles to 80,000+ topic pages with citable and trusted definitions that are contextualized within a discipline.

Did it make a difference? Find out by attending the Library Connect webinar: Literature search on a connected path.

Registration is required for this live one-hour webinar. It will be broadcast internationally and includes time to ask the presenters questions during the session. The webinar is a complimentary event and part of Elsevier's Library Connect program for academic, medical, corporate and government librarians.

Cannot attend on Sept 29? Register for the webinar and you will be notified when it can be viewed online after the event.

Today’s researchers are obliged to include a variety of metrics in their applications for grant funding, and promotion and tenure files. They also develop online profiles to enhance their reputation and attract collaborators. Whether welcome or worrisome, researcher profiles and metrics have become commonplace. So how can librarians help?

It begins with a conversation. Discover how to put researchers at ease with the notion of metrics, and what metrics can and cannot convey. Find out more about how to select the best metrics for different disciplines and at different stages of the research career. And learn how institutional initiatives, such as instituting the ORCID researcher iD and providing early education, can provide them with lifelong benefits. By helping to clarify and codify certain processes, you will ensure your researchers are their own best advocates.

TOPICS

- Clearing up misconceptions about bibliometric indicators
- Metrics as a means to counterbalance other biases
- Telling researchers’ stories through metrics
- Metrics for different disciplines and career stages
- Promoting ORCID at various points in the researchers’ career
- Touchpoints for researcher training

In this webinar librarians share their inspiration and process for developing high-impact library services. The head of research and instructional services at a university library will discuss how she and her team are aligning library instruction with high-impact educational practices to increase engagement and retention. The head of a medical library serving a spectrum of healthcare professionals will describe the development and evolution of a systematic review service. And a law librarian shares how he helps faculty increase productivity and get published faster using an open access repository of abstracts and preprints/working papers.

•Scaffolding library instruction throughout students’ studies
•Supporting undergraduate research and living learning communities
•Identifying the informationist’s role in the 7 steps of a systematic review
•Managing users’ expectations with service-level agreements
•Improving scholarly communication via working papers/preprints
•Ensuring research papers are discoverable on SSRN with targeted metada