Building Capacity in Your Library for Research Data Management Support (Or What We Learned From Offering to Review DMPs)

In our evolving effort to build infrastructure and support around research data management needs, we found traction in launching a data management plan review service. In doing so, we have been able to achieve multiple goals: 1) support the research process; 2) create active learning situations for subject liaisons to engage in and learn how to support data management planning; 3) find resonance with campus‐sponsored research officers; 4) collaborate with other campus research support groups including campus IT, the institutional review board, and statistical consulting; 5) and participate in the national dialogue about the tensions of data management

Where Do We Go From Here: Choosing a Framework for Assessing Research Data Services and Training

Research data management has become a critical issue for campus researchers, funding agencies, and libraries, who have made substantial investments of time, energy, and resources into support for managing and sharing data. As data management programs proliferate, however, assessment of research data services has become a notorious challenge for libraries. How can we know—and demonstrate—that our efforts are having an impact, and how can we learn to make them even more effective? In this session, we will present a survey of several frameworks for assessing research data management services. We will lead a discussion about the application of different frameworks for assessing or auditing existing skill sets, external facing services, and capacity to support an array of research data services. This discussion will be grounded in a demonstration of how we applied one framework to audit the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries’s “training ground” model, which serves the dual purpose of developing competencies within our librarians and supporting researchers in their needs to manage, preserve, and share research assets. Through an active discussion of our efforts, and the efforts of libraries around the world, we can chart a course for effective research data management that can help guide libraries already deep into the process as well as those just getting their feet wet. Note: This presentation and conference paper is derived in part from the following publication: Davis, H. M., & Cross, W. M. (2015).Using a data management plan review service as a training ground for librarians. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(2), eP1243

Support When It Counts: Library Roles in Public Access to Federally Funded Research

In November 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it would begin enforcing its April 2008 mandate of public access to NIH-funded research by delaying processing of investigators’ grants reporting noncompliant publications. In response, the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries offered to assist the University’s sponsored research administration in supporting NCSU researchers who had publications stemming from NIH funding and had not achieved compliance. Since the 2008 NIH mandate, over 1,000 articles based on NIH-funding have been published by NCSU across research areas including veterinary medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, textiles, design, math, and statistics. Many were published in journals which did not automatically deposit papers to meet NIH requirements. Although familiar with biomedical literature, author agreements, and open access, we did not fully grasp the complex web of investigator, author, publisher, institution, and funder relations involved in this mandate until we were deeply engaged in the process and gained access to the compliance monitoring data. In this paper, we discuss the costs and benefits of library support for authors needing to attain compliance with an eye toward how this support may be scaled up if other federal funding agencies follow suit. We share practical strategies for supporting compliance efforts for individual researchers and at the campuswide level, as well as training newly funded researchers to facilitate future compliance. We discuss the advantages of leveraging existing relationships with publishers to help their researchers, strategies for getting involved in compliance support, and insights on how to skill-up and scale-up when engaging in this part of the research process

Aligning systems science and community-based participatory research: A case example of the Community Health Advocacy and Research Alliance (CHARA).

Partnered research may help bridge the gap between research and practice. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) supports collaboration between scientific researchers and community members that is designed to improve capacity, enhance trust, and address health disparities. Systems science aims to understand the complex ways human-ecological coupled systems interact and apply knowledge to management practices. Although CBPR and systems science display complementary principles, only a few articles describe synergies between these 2 approaches. In this article, we explore opportunities to utilize concepts from systems science to understand the development, evolution, and sustainability of 1 CBPR partnership: The Community Health Advocacy and Research Alliance (CHARA). Systems science tools may help CHARA and other CBPR partnerships sustain their core identities while co-evolving in conjunction with individual members, community priorities, and a changing healthcare landscape. Our goal is to highlight CHARA as a case for applying the complementary approaches of CBPR and systems science to (1) improve academic/community partnership functioning and sustainability, (2) ensure that research addresses the priorities and needs of end users, and (3) support more timely application of scientific discoveries into routine practice

Influence of boundaries on pattern selection in through-flow

The problem of pattern selection in absolutely unstable open flow systems is investigated by considering the example of Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection. The spatiotemporal structure of convection rolls propagating downstream in an externally imposed flow is determined for six different inlet/outlet boundary conditions. Results are obtained by numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations and by comparison with the corresponding Ginzburg-Landau amplitude equation. A unique selection process is observed being a function of the control parameters and the boundary conditions but independent of the history and the system length. The problem can be formulated in terms of a nonlinear eigen/boundary value problem where the frequency of the propagating pattern is the eigenvalue. PACS: 47.54.+r, 47.20.Bp, 47.27.Te, 47.20.KyComment: 8 pages, 5 Postscript figures, Physica D 97, 253-263 (1996

Onset of Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection

Experiments with shadowgraph visualization reveal a subcritical transition to a hexagonal convection pattern in thin liquid layers that have a free upper surface and are heated from below. The measured critical Marangoni number (84) and observation of hysteresis (3%) agree with theory. In some experiments, imperfect bifurcation is observed and is attributed to deterministic forcing caused in part by the lateral boundaries in the experiment.Comment: 4 pages. The RevTeX file has a macro allowing various styles. The appropriate style is "mypprint" which is the defaul

Evolution of the Luminosity Function and Colors of Galaxies in a Lambda-CDM Universe

The luminosity function of galaxies is derived from a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) universe with the aid of a stellar population synthesis model. At z=0, the resulting B band luminosity function has a flat faint end slope of \alpha \approx -1.15 with the characteristic luminosity and the normalization in a fair agreement with observations, while the dark matter halo mass function is steep with a slope of \alpha \approx -2. The colour distribution of galaxies also agrees well with local observations. We also discuss the evolution of the luminosity function, and the colour distribution of galaxies from z=0 to 5. A large evolution of the characteristic mass in the stellar mass function due to number evolution is compensated by luminosity evolution; the characteristic luminosity increases only by 0.8 mag from z=0 to 2, and then declines towards higher redshift, while the B band luminosity density continues to increase from z=0 to 5 (but only slowly at z>3).Comment: 6 pages, including 4 figures, mn2e style. Accepted to MNRAS pink page

Digital nursing practice theory: a scoping review and thematic analysis

AimsThis scoping review aims to identify existing theories associated with digital nursing practice toadd a lens on the future use of digital technologies by nurses.DesignA review of theories related to digital technology in nursing practice was conducted followingthe framework described by Arksey and O’Malley. All published literature up until 12th May2022 was included.Data sourcesSeven databases were utilised including Medline, Scopus, CINAHL, ACM Digital Library, IEEEXplore, BNI and Web of Science. A Google Scholar search was also performed.Review methodsThe search terms included (nurs* AND (digital OR technol* OR e-health or ehealth or digitalhealth or telemedicine or telehealth) AND theory).ResultsThe database searches yielded 282 citations. After screening, 9 papers were included in thereview. These described 8 distinct nursing theories.ConclusionThe focuses of the theories included the role of technology in society and nursing. Howtechnology should be developed to support nursing practice. Health consumers’ use of nursinginformatics. The use of technology as an expression of caring and the preservation ofhumanness. The relationship between human persons and non-human actants and the creationof nursing technologies as caring in addition to existing technologies.Three themes were identified including the role of technology as an agent within the patientenvironment; nurse interactions with technology to achieve ‘knowing’ of patients and thenecessity of technological competence among nurses. Then, using Actor Network Theory (ANT)a zoom-out lens to map the concepts was propose

The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey

'The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com .' Copyright Blackwell Publishing DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13924.xThe UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is one of the five near-infrared Public Legacy Surveys that are being undertaken by the UKIDSS consortium, using the Wide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared TelescopePeer reviewe