Researcher need: IS supporting research

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Researcher need IS supporting research

• Sheila Cannell

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The University supports research

• The mission of the University is the creation
  dissemination and curation of knowledge. As a
  world-leading centre of academic excellence we
  aim to
• Enhance our position as one of the worlds
  leading research and teaching universities and to
  measure our performance against the highest
  international standards

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IS supports research in many ways, e.g.

• Research computing
• Library materials
• Help, support, skills training
• Administrative support
• etc etc etc

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• but do we put the researcher first
• or do we put the University need and our
  services before the researcher need

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put another way

• Do we know what the researcher needs?
• Do we understand the researcher workflow?
• Do we understand the differences in disciplines?
• Can we express this in researcher
  language/workflow rather than in our
  language/workflow?

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Research Library Group research information
management programme
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• We will provide you dedicated space on a server.
• Well help you structure space to organize your
  notes, datasets, others publications,
  presentations
• Well help you load it if you like.
• Well back up your work.
• Well ensure you can access your data remotely,
  no matter where you are.
• Well provide tools for group work and version
  control at the file level.
• Well help you manage your research, tracking who
  is involved in which grant, which research is
  funded by which grant, and purchasing
  grant-funded equipment
• Well help you negotiate publication rights.
• Well help you comply with NIH and other
  requirements.
• Well see that your work is disseminated broadly,
  quickly, and openly and that you get maximum
  impact for you and your university.
• Well do the authority work to ensure you are
  credited for all your work, despite the various
  forms of your name used in indicating authorship.
• Well keep your personal bibliography up-to-date.
• Well provide you with a customizable personal
  web page.
• Well include you in the campus expertise
  database and facilitate inclusion in disciplinary
  expert databases.
• Well preserve your outputs in the institutional
  repository and facilitate inclusion in
  disciplinary repositories.
• Well see that you can take your work with you if
  you leave this institution

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• We will provide you dedicated space on a server.
  Yes, distributed responsibility
• Well help you structure space to organize your
  notes, datasets, others publications,
  presentations We provide tools and advice
• Well help you load it if you like. Well help
  you if you ask
• Well back up your work. Yes if you put it in the
  right place
• Well ensure you can access your data remotely,
  no matter where you are. Yes but not completely
• Well provide tools for group work and version
  control at the file level.Some provided probably
  not enough
• Well help you manage your research, tracking who
  is involved in which grant, which research is
  funded by which grant, and purchasing
  grant-funded equipment No

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• Well help you negotiate publication rights. We
  advise if you ask
• Well help you comply with NIH and other
  requirements. We advise if you ask
• Well see that your work is disseminated broadly,
  quickly, and openly and that you get maximum
  impact for you and your university. Yes but we
  need to do more and tell you more
• Well do the authority work to ensure you are
  credited for all your work, despite the various
  forms of your name used in indicating authorship.
  No
• Well keep your personal bibliography up-to-date.
  We give you the tools
• Well provide you with a customizable personal
  web page. No
• Well include you in the campus expertise
  database and facilitate inclusion in disciplinary
  expert databases. For those who elect to give
  their info to ERI
• Well preserve your outputs in the institutional
  repository and facilitate inclusion in
  disciplinary repositories. Yes for research
  outputs but not data
• Well see that you can take your work with you if
  you leave this institution Up to you

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So, what should we be doing?

• ERMIS
• Researcher focussed management system giving
  researchers what they want?
• Pooling knowledge of researcher workflow
• Theres a lot of knowledge in IS (ALDs, user
  support, liasion librarians)
• Think about IS projects (website, service
  catalogue) in terms of research workflow
• Thinking about how we communicate with
  researchers developing a strategy for this,
  which will vary by discipline
• Consider changing roles of staff to support the
  needs
• Meet with information specialists working in
  Schools/with research groups
• Critically examine developing VREs for
  implementation
• Support for specialised groups (eg research
  pools, international researchers)
• How are we to manage research data
• Helping with the recruitment cycle

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Where is the locus for discussing these issues?

• ERI?
• Vice-Principal for Research?
• ERMIS Group?
• But where is the support for the researcher
  expressed in the terms which the researcher needs?