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Research article: Providing research data management (RDM) services in libraries: preparedness, roles, challenges, and training for RDM practice

Research SupportAugust 23, 2019

(Published 12 Aug 2019) This paper reports the results of an international survey on research data management (RDM) services in libraries. More than 240 practicing librarians responded to the survey and outlined their roles and levels of preparedness in providing RDM services, challenges their libraries face, and knowledge and skills that they deemed essential to…

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Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the RPT process

Research SupportAugust 13, 2019

(30 Jul 2019) As tenured faculty positions become increasingly competitive, the pressure to publish—especially in “high impact” journals—has never been greater. As a result, many of today’s academics believe having a strong publication record is necessary for the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process. Publishing, for some, has become synonymous with professional success. A survey of faculty…

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UK to set up research integrity committee by 2020

Research SupportAugust 8, 2019

(25 Jul 2019) The UK is establishing a research integrity committee to better monitor how robustly the nation’s universities carry out research misconduct investigations. The committee is due to begin its work in early next summer, the government has announced. More details can be found here.

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Free webinar focuses on data-visualization techniques from PLA

Data, Event, Research SupportAugust 7, 2019

(26 Jul 2019) The Public Library Association (PLA) will present a webinar next month designed to help public library professionals apply data-visualization techniques to their work. The webinar is presented as part of PLA’s Performance Measurement Initiative and features Project Outcome, our free toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of essential library services and programs.…

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Austria launches its ORCID consortium

Research SupportJuly 30, 2019

(26 Jul 2019) Austria has taken a major step to adopt ORCID on a national scale. The official ORCID Austria launch event took place in Vienna on June 13. Co-hosted by consortium lead organizations TU Wien and the University of Vienna, supported by ORCID and E-Infrastructures Austria Plus, this was the third ORCID workshop in Austria, but the…

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Ruth’s Rankings 41: THE’s University Impact Rankings and Sustainable Development Goals: Are These the Most Impactful Universities in the World?

Research Support, Ruth's RankingsJuly 25, 2019

By Ruth A. Pagell* What university is tops in the world in the Impact Rankings? Which Asia-Pac nation has the most universities that participated in the survey? Approximately how many universities are involved in worldwide SDG initiatives? A: 460; B: 1200; C: 7000? (25 Jul 2019) Phil Baty, THE’s chief knowledge officer said, “The rankings offer…

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Russian site says it has brokered authorships for more than 10,000 researchers

Research SupportJuly 19, 2019

(18 Jul 2019) Want to be a first author on a scholarly paper? A Russian company has you covered — starting at about $500. The company claims to have added the names of more than 10,000 researchers to more than 2,000 published articles in scholarly journals over the past three years. Think eBay — or…

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Crowding the library: how and why Libraries are using crowdsourcing to engage the public (OA article)

Libraries, Research SupportJuly 17, 2019

(15 Jul 2019) From the abstract: “This article is written from a Canadian University library perspective with the goal to help the reader engage with the current crowdsourcing landscape. This article’s contribution includes a literature review and a survey of popular projects and platforms; followed by a case study of a crowdsourcing pilot completed at…

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Preprints boost article citations and mentions

Research SupportJuly 12, 2019

(9 Jul 2019) A new analysis suggests that journal articles posted as preprints before their formal publication in a peer-reviewed journal attract more citations and online mentions than those without preprint versions. A team led by Nicholas Fraser, a bibliometrics researcher at the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Germany, retrieved all 18,841 papers posted on the biology repository bioRxiv between November…

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Sweden passes law For national research misconduct agency

Research SupportJuly 12, 2019

(10 Jul 2019) Sweden has passed a law to create a government agency to investigate research misconduct. On June 18, the Swedish Parliament passed the law to create the Research Misconduct Board, which will become active in January 2020 and oversee cases of misconduct from public higher education institutions, central government agencies, municipalities, county councils,…

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