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Presentation from Duke University on building user engagement through Symplectic Elements.</p

Rethinking Repositories: Time to (re-)focus on the researchers?

Slides from a presentation at the Coalition for Networked Information spring meeting in Albuquerque, NM, in April 2017.<br><br>Abstract from the session:<br><br>At many institutions, repository initiatives provide access, preservation and services for multiple programs - at-risk digital special collections, digitized materials, and the outputs of research, including publications and data. No single software stack, platform, service portfolio, or even library program can support all of these areas. Given this diffusion of stakeholders, needs, and processes, is there a unifying aspect for the institutional repository? If not, then what do we mean by "institutional repository?" In a time where both the needs of researchers and repository technologies are rapidly evolving, what strategies should libraries employ for developing technology, staffing, services, and policies to provide access and preservation for a wide range of institutional assets? In this panel discussion, repository leaders from the University of North Carolina and Duke University will start a conversation by describing their approaches, what they have learned, and how they think these services should evolve. They will pose some provocative questions for discussion with all attendees, and hope to stimulate a better understanding of cohesive approaches for repository programs. <p>Panel convened at the CNI Spring 2017 Membership Meeting with Jason Casden (Head, Software Development at UNC University Libraries), Paolo Mangiafico (Coordinator, Scholarly Communications Technology at Duke University Libraries), and Julie Rudder (Repository Program Librarian at UNC University Libraries).</p

Research Information Management at Duke University: A Researcher-centered Approach

Slides from a webinar presented via OCLC's Works in Progress series, January 2017.<br><br>Abstract:<br><br><p>Duke University Libraries have worked collaboratively with other campus units to aggregate and manage research information to make knowledge produced by Duke researchers more broadly and openly available, help researchers build their reputations, archive copies of Duke scholarship, and to help researchers find collaborators, students find mentors, and journalists, policy makers, and the general public find experts.</p> <p>In order to achieve these goals, Duke is using the Symplectic Elements research information management (RIM) system, seamlessly integrating it with VIVO researcher profiles and the campus<a href="http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/"> DukeSpace</a> institutional repository. Researcher profiles are created automatically, populated with information sourced from both internal and external sources, and customized by profile holders or others delegated to do this on their behalf. Publication metadata are collected from numerous bibliographic sources such as Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and ArXiv, and Sherpa/Romeo integration assists librarians and scholars in navigating the complex rights landscape. Today the<a href="https://scholars.duke.edu/"> Scholars@Duke</a> researcher expertise portal publicly features the scholarship, research, and activities of Duke faculty and academic staff. Duke faculty can conveniently upload full text versions of their publications for permanent archival and broader access, and links to open access versions of their work are integrated into their citations and public profiles alongside links to the published versions</p> <p>In implementing and promoting these services, Duke has taken a researcher-focused communications strategy, emphasizing how these services directly benefit scholars by saving them time and increasing the visibility of their publications. The libraries have also collaborated with units such as the Office of News & Communication to help embed links to open access versions of referenced research  in campus press releases to maximize and measure impact. Widgets and an open API also enable easy reuse of Scholars@Duke information on campus and researcher web pages, as well as in library catalogs and Google Scholar, providing further convenience to the campus and global research community.</p> <p>This webinar will be of interest to scholarly communications librarians, library administrators, and communications specialists.  Given the enterprise nature of research information management, it will also be relevant to other institutional stakeholders including deans, research administrators, and IT professionals.</p

The Emergence of Research Information Management (RIM) in US Libraries

<p>Advancing technologies, standards, and networked information offer new opportunities for institutions to steward and disseminate the scholarly outputs of its researchers. In this project briefing we will discuss how research information management (RIM) is emerging as a part of scholarly communications practice in many US university libraries, in close collaboration with other campus stakeholders. RIM intersects many aspects of traditional library services in discovery, acquisition dissemination and analysis of scholarly activities, but does so at the convergence of institutional data systems, faculty/research processes, and institutional partners.  It also can serve as the basis for a growing shift in emphasis in research libraries--from focusing primarily on providing local access to research produced elsewhere, toward a greater focus on providing global access to research produced by the institution's community. The integration of open access repositories with RIM programs provides an opportunity to strengthen participation with and impact of both. The University of Arizona, with leadership from the University Libraries, has converted a decentralized, antiquated paper-based faculty activity review (FAR) process into a cloud-based system, integrating faculty inputs and aggregating information from multiple data systems creating a complete authoritative record of faculty activities and outputs to support institutional analysis and expert discovery services. Duke University libraries support a faculty-initiated open access policy by simplifying processes for self-archiving and aggregating research outputs into public profiles to support both individual researchers’ incentives and institutional needs. This presentation will also outline a growing program of research on emerging library support for RIM, led by OCLC Research in collaboration with OCLC Research Library Partnership member institutions.</p><div><br></div