The RIN: An Update

Michael Jubb

RLUK Conference24 October 2008

Resources and Plans

Funding renewed 2008-2011Increased capacity

Staffing increased from four to sevenresearch, including in-houseLiaison, partnerships and communication

New business planBuilding the evidence baseProviding advice and guidancePromoting change

Research Data

Stewardship PrinciplesTo Share or Not to ShareFollow-up work on capacity and capabilityWorking alongside UKRDS

Libraries and Information Services

Researchers and libraries report

Follow-up guidance to senior managers in HE sector

Libraries of the future programmeBibliographic records studyCollaboration with Centres for Language-Based Area StudiesFollow up to retroconversion reportSupport for UKRRDiscovering the past

objects and artefacts

Scholarly CommunicationsCosts and how they are met

Workshop 11 December

Public Policy GoalsWork towards a ‘toolkit’

Incentives for and constraints on researchers

REF-related

Payment of publication feesWork with UUK

Acknowledgement of fundersFollow-up in 2009

New Modes of Communication

Researchers’ take-up and attitudes towards blogs, wikis, forums, groups, social tagging and other network tools

Implications for publishing and scholarly communications generally, and for research assessment

Training and Staff Development

Mind the Skills GapFollow-up with SCONUL, RLUK, RCUK, Vitae, Grad Schools etc

Libraries of the Future ProgrammeBrief Guides

Case Studies

Discipline-based studies of how researchers discover, locate, evaluate, create, organise, transform and communicate information resources in the course of the research process

Initial set of studies in life sciences

Big Questions and Challenges

How efficient and effective are the information services provided for and used by researchers in the UK?

How do we assess and/or measure them?How do we improve them?

How do we engage more effectively with researchers themselves?

Thank you

michael.jubb@rin.ac.uk

http://www.rin.ac.uk