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Research support services: What services do researchers need and use? | RIN upcoming re... - 0 views

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    This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will identify and examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process. The project's goal is to discover researchers' needs and desires in a small sample of UK and US universities and to identify the significant patterns, intersections, gaps and issues from researchers' points of view, whatever the source of such services. This study will document the nature and scope of research support services, providing examples of good practice, recommending areas where new practice might emerge, and identifying possible areas and scope for collaboration within and between institutions
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The Future of Research and the Research Library (The Lime Guild report for Denmark's El... - 1 views

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    The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.
Melissa Shaffer

Measuring the Impact of Research: What do we know? (Part 1) | Insight and Action | Know... - 0 views

  • The authors argue that “impact measures can be categorized according to whether the active role in promoting the research is played by the researchers (producer-push measures), decision-makers (user-pull measures) or both researchers and decision-makers (exchange measures).”x
  • Table 2. Methods for measuring the benefits from research, as defined by RAND Europe i
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    * A common reason for measuring the impact of research is to demonstrate accountability, but results of measuring can also be used to guide improvements in research and programming. * Health research impacts generally include: knowledge production; research capacity-building; informed decision-making; health and health sector benefits; and economic benefits. * Among some of the widely used methods for measuring the benefits from research are bibliometric analysis, economic rate of return, peer review, case studies, logic modelling, and benchmarking. Taking a multi-indicator, multi-method approach is advised.
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Will Commit 5 Million Euros to Open Ac... - 0 views

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    According to a news article by the SURFfoundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, which "funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes," will commit five million Euros to support the open access publication of its funded research results.
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Research Integrity Conference: The Importance of good data management : JISC (2011) - 0 views

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    With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective
Garrett Eastman

De-Mystifying the Data Management Requirements of Research Funders - 1 views

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    Abstract "Research libraries have sought to apply their information management expertise to the management of digital research data. This focus has been spurred in part by the policies of two major funding agencies in the United States, which require grant recipients make research outputs, including publications and research data, openly available. As many academic libraries are beginning to offer or are already offering assistance in writing and implementing data management plans, it is important to consider how best to support researchers. Our research examined the current data management requirements of major US funding agencies to better understand data management requirements facing researchers and the implications for libraries offering data management services for researchers."
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British Library - Growing Knowledge - The evolution of research - 2 views

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    How have digital technologies changed research? What are the new challenges they pose? What role should a research library play in the 21st Century? Growing Knowledge at the British Library explores these questions with our researchers in order to inform the debate on the future of research.
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Elsevier Enriches Articles With Research Data Sets - 0 views

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    Elsevier Enriches Articles With Research Data Sets Elsevier and PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA.
Garrett Eastman

Overcoming barriers: access to research information | Research Information Network - 1 views

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    "Overcoming barriers: access to research information" a Research Information Network report
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    This report points out a major issue for researchers: it is often easy to FIND the content they need (through Web of Science or Google or PubMed) but it is difficult to ACCESS it. "The content is not available online (either through failure to be digitised or lack of licence purchasing) and licences for online content are seen to be too complex and sometimes restrictive of access for non-members of institutions; and institutions lack the technical and administrative capacity to overcome these issues."
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CLIR Report: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (2010) - 1 views

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    A timely, well-researched and balanced account of the future of research libraries and their collections. Spiro and Henry's "Can a new research library be all-digital" lays out all the important considerations for any library considering the digital path.
Garrett Eastman

Researchers of Tomorrow: A three year (BL/JISC) study tracking the research behaviour o... - 3 views

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    Excerpt: similarities and emerging differences between Generation Y and older students in six broad areas: * constraints on research; * ways of searching for research information; * research resources used; * using library collections and services; * using technology in research; * training and support to research. ...
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    JISC report explores assumptions about "Generation Y' and information-seeking behavior and facility with technology
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RAND | | Capturing Research Impacts: A review of international practice (2009) - 0 views

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    In February 2009, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned RAND Europe to review approaches to evaluating the impact of research as part of their wider work programme to develop new arrangements for the assessment and funding of research - referred to as the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
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Sage Research Methods Online - 1 views

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    "SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a tool to support your research needs as you design, select and apply a method. Containing over 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content from leading SAGE authors, SRMO supports independent researchers at all levels."
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Beyond Impact: Measuring Research, Making a Difference - 0 views

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    Open Society Foundations funded project that aims to facilitate a conversation between researchers, their funders, and developers about what we mean by the "impact" of research and how we can make its measurement more reliable, more useful, and more accepted by the research community
Garrett Eastman

Researchers of Tomorrow : JISC - 0 views

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    "esearchers of Tomorrow is the longest and most intensive research to date on information-seeking practices and research behaviour among doctoral students. This gives it special significance in terms of the credibility of its findings, and these should be of key interest to a number of different stakeholders in the HE and research sector."
Melissa Shaffer

Measuring the Impact of Research - 0 views

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    ...The RQF differs from existing international research assessment methods by considering res- earch impact in addition to the more conven- tional quality measures normally used in the academic community. This inclusion has created some controversy. Detractors argue that the inclusion of impact devalues the assessment process by moving beyond the scholarly domain, and that there may be undue emphasis on research that can demonstrably show shorter- term economic or other gains. An alternative view is that the absence of an assessment of impact seriously unbalances the evaluation of research and its importance to national and global priorities....
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Rapid Research Notes and PloS Influenza site - 0 views

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    Launched by NCBI, Rapid Research Notes (RRN) "allows users to access and cite research that is provided through participating publisher programs designed for immediate communication."
Garrett Eastman

Community Capability Model Framework - 0 views

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    Project from 2012, collaboration of UKOLN, University of Bath and Microsoft Research "to assist institutions, research funders and researchers in growing the capability of their communities to perform data intensive research "
Garrett Eastman

Information handling in collaborative research - 0 views

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    Abstract: "UK public policy makers have a growing interest in collaborative research, where academics work with public, private or third sector partners on a joint project which supports the partner's aims. This paper reports on the findings of five case studies, looking at how information is sourced, managed, used and shared within collaborative research projects. It finds that researchers within collaborative projects have similar information management issues as are known to exist within academia more broadly, but that the specific conditions which govern research collaborations mean that interventions to improve or support information management must be carefully tailored."
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Report: IPR policy for research (March 2012) - 0 views

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    The report provides recommendations to policy makers in science and scholarly research regarding IPR policy to increase the impact of research and make the outcomes more available
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