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Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience Rosa Padrós CuxartClara Riera QuinteroAnna Zuñiga Ruiz
LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013
Skills and competences of research librarians. The UOC experience Rosa Padrós CuxartClara Riera QuinteroAnna Zuñiga Ruiz
LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013
• The role of the researchsupport team• Competences and skills of research librarians• UOC Library Research Support Services• Benefits for researchers and for the Library
• The role of the researchsupport team• Competences and skills of research librarians• UOC Library Research Support Services• Benefits for researchers and for the Library
Organisational structure
Research Support Library Services Group as a result of
Institutional context:• Strategic planning• Promoting research• Cross-disciplinary work
External context:• Evaluation of research outcomes:
competitive and rigorous processes• Bibliometric units coming on
UOC Library Research Support Services in line with the research support workflows:
• UOC areas involved• Research tools (CRIS, institutional repository,
scholarly resources)• Research services and activities
CrossdisciplinarityIntegration
UOC research areas and institutes
Research librarians in close collaboration with:• Office of the Vice President for Research and
Innovation• Research and Transfer Support Office (OSRT)• Planning and Quality Office
UOC Research Institutes:• IN3 Internet Interdisciplinary Institute• eLearn Center
UOC research tools
• CRIS: GIR (Software: Universitas XXI)• OSRT Intranet• O2 Institutional Repository• UOC Research and innovation website
Distinction between:- Professional competences:
specific knowledge on particular matters that make it possible to carry out an activity
- Personal competences or skills: an innate or acquired ability that makes it possible to carry out an activity or provide a service
New research services and activities
Research librarian competences 1/2
• Virtual reference• Scholarly Resources Knowledge• Data expert• Bibliometric knowledge• Statistics• Research Performance Measurement• Publishing sector: guidance
Research librarian competences 2/2
• Journal Indexing Criteria• IT Skills• Social Networking• Copyright, Licensing & Open Access• Digital preservation policies
Research librarian skills 1/2
• Strategic Orientation• Proactivity• Interpersonal Skills in a Virtual Environment• Cross-Disciplinary
Research librarian skills 2/2
• Communication Skills• Social/Community Skills• Teamwork• Virtual Teaching & Training Skills
UOC Library Research Support Services in line with the research lifecycle:
New Library support research services and activities
• Bibliometric service• Bibliographic searches• Support service for
accreditation calls• Standardization of
authors’ names• Open-access publication
of doctoral theses service
http://beta.biblioteca.uoc.edu/app/bibweb/?q=en/node/486
Bibliometric service
• Support service for searching bibliometric data and assessing the quality of scientific output
• Bibliometric reports:– bibliometric analysis of publications:
articles, books– assistance with establishing a strategy
regarding where to publish the articles– ISI reports of authors UOC
Bibliographic searches service
- Personalised guidance (search terms, information sources, etc.) on searching for documents relevant to a user’s academic or research activity
- Customised reports, for example:• identifying a field’s leading authors or
research groups• providing state of the art of a topic• identifying journals that publish articles on a
given topic
Support service for accreditation calls
- Support service for finding bibliometric data (impact factors, citations, etc.) about publications
- Useful when applying for accreditation by the Quality Assurance Agencies (AQU, ANECA, etc.)
- Providing support guides [In Catalan language]http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/21521
Standardization of authors’ names
• Service to handle standardization of authors’ names in the different databases
Open-access publication of doctoral theses service
• UOC’s O2 institutional repository
• Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Doctoral Theses on the Web, TDX) cooperative repository
BENEFITS for researchers and research groups
• Contact Person / Team Expert in Research• Supporting Research Processes• Access 24/7: Virtual reference & Scholarly
Resources• Support for Improving the Quality of Research• Better Management Research Services• Guidance on Dissemination of Research
BENEFITS for the Virtual Library
• Increased Visibility Inside the University• New Services Deployment• Professional Development• Better Perception of The Library Services by
the Researcher
To know more about
Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new services [Poster]http://hdl.handle.net/10609/15321
Research librarians in a virtual environment : new skills, new services [Article]http://hdl.handle.net/10609/14221
Rosa Padrós Cuxart rpadrosc@uoc.eduClara Riera Quintero crieraq@uoc.eduAnna Zuñiga Ruiz azuniga@uoc.edu
Thank you!Thank you!
LIASA 15th Annual Conference2013