New Professional Events; a Personal Journey from Application to Presentation

This article will explore two very different events that I attended as a New Professional in 2016, how I applied, what I got out of them and why I think attending these events is important for not only New Professionals, but anyone working in libraries – and conversely why it is sometimes better to say no. The two events were the UK Serials Group (UKSG) 2016 Annual Conference from 11th-13th April and the New Library Professionals’ Network (NLPN) OPEN event on the 4th June

The view from Salford : perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university

This article presents a range of perspectives on the current state of the scholarly communications sector through the lens of a research-informed university, beginning with a short overview of research at the University of Salford and followed by our assessment of what we feel is working, and indeed not working, with the current system. Based on this, we assess what we feel are the current barriers to change and both how these can be overcome and what we are doing to overcome them. Finally, we provide some commentary on what we feel is the changing open access paradigm and where all this should take us next

We’re API and we know it: exploiting data from multiple sources

This paper will examine how an increasingly integrated scholarly communications infrastructure, locally and on the wider web, can be leveraged to support open dissemination through a variety of complementary channels. Our University has sought to integrate and display data from third party services - Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Twitter, YouTube, IRUS-UK, altmetric.com, ORCiD - via a suite of software including Symplectic Elements, EPrints, Sitecore and LibGuide Content Management Systems. In addition to transferring metadata and files to EPrints, the Elements API allows us to expose bibliographic records, by author, school or keyword to display via a CMS. Authors can manage lists of selected publications on their web profile, including links to files archived in EPrints and we have developed a dedicated series of LibGuides around selected themes, comprising a range of relevant information and institutional research outputs alongside relevant content from Twitter and YouTube. Monthly downloads from IRUS-UK and top altmetric scores by faculty are also collated and publicly displayed and there has been some network analysis of social media engagement around institutional research. Looking forward we will consider how ORCiD provides opportunities for even greater integration of our existing and related services including grant applications and Research Data Management