What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a university
- 1. What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a university Nick Sheppard Open Research Advisor Leeds University Library [email protected]
- 2. • Common or garden Library research support professional(?) • NO professional qualification • B.A. English Literature • NO higher degree • Learned on the job (still learning!) - UKCORR* • Leeds Metropolitan University (2007) - Mostly repositories and open access • University of Leeds (2016) - Research Data Management Advisor - Open Research Advisor Who am I? Image courtesy of RSPB src: https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5954/big-campus-birdwatch *UKCORR – UK Council of Open Research and Repositories (https://www.ukcorr.org/)
- 3. • University of Leeds • Research intensive • 7 faculties • 14 interdisciplinary research institutes/centres • 9,200 staff - 3800 academic staff • 10,000 postgraduates - ~3700 PGRs Where am I?
- 4. Library Research Support at Leeds Library Research Support Research Support Team Research Data Leeds Open Research? • OA publishing and funding • REF support • Symplectic, WRRO, WREO • Researcher skills development • Bibliometrics • Literature searching • Raising research visibility • Open and FAIR data • PIDs (DOI, ORCID) • Data management planning • Research data repositories / related infrastructure • Funder compliance • Researcher skills development Staff PGR
- 5. • FAIR data • Metrics & Rewards • Scholarly Publishing • Research Integrity • Citizen Science Disciplinary differences? • STEM vs HSS • Preprints • Registered reports / preregistration Skills and knowledge?
- 6. Library Research Support at Leeds • Software and code • GitHub • Training (Python, R) • Cloud & HPC Research Computing OD & PL • Researcher development • Research culture • Research integrity & ethics • Research impact Library Research Support Research Support Team Research Data Leeds Open Research? • OA publishing and funding • REF support • Symplectic, WRRO, WREO • Researcher skills development • Bibliometrics • Literature searching • Raising research visibility • Open and FAIR data • PIDs (DOI, ORCID) • Data management planning • Research data repositories / related infrastructure • Funder compliance • Researcher skills development Staff PGR
- 7. Library Research Support at Leeds Library Research Support Research Support Team Research Data Leeds Open Research? • OA publishing and funding • REF support • Symplectic, WRRO, WREO • Researcher skills development • Bibliometrics • Literature searching • Raising research visibility • Open and FAIR data • PIDs (DOI, ORCID) • Data management planning • Research data repositories / related infrastructure • Funder compliance • Researcher skills development Staff PGR
- 8. • Grassroots journal club initiative • discuss diverse issues, papers and ideas about improving science, reproducibility & Open Science • Started in early 2018 at the University of Oxford Some examples from Leeds • Power and inequality in Open Science discourses • Open source tools (geographic analysis) • Preregistering qualitative research ReproducibiliTea ReproducibiliTea Online (the only good thing about Covid) https://reproducibilitea.org/calendar
- 9. • Preprints & open peer review in different disciplines • Tools for reproducible research • Not just for STEM: Open and reproducible research in the social sciences • Open from beginning to end: addressing barriers to open research • The greatest possible impact: The Wellcome Trust and open research • Preregistration and the architecture of open science • Responsible research assessment: rethinking what we value in research Open lunch series Summaries and recording on the Library blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress .com/tag/open-lunch/
- 11. • One page ahead in the textbook • Echo chamber – engage all staff/PGR? • Disciplinary differences - Principles vs practical support - Local ‘champions’ / discipline experts - TU Delft model • Open access (the insatiable beast!) • Culture - Institutional - Sectoral • Reward and incentive Challenges Lets change what we value in research
- 12. • Reproducible research • Responsible metrics • Research culture ---------------------------------------- • Open access • Open data • Open platforms, tools and services • An open approach to conducting research • Transparency and public engagement What’s next? Open Research Group Reporting to Research Culture Group
- 13. Leeds University Library Leeds, United Kingdom LS2 9JT Library no library.leeds.ac.uk Thank you Nick Sheppard [email protected] @mrnick @OpenResLeeds
Editor's Notes
- #13: Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods. https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition We prefer the term “open research” to be more inclusive of the humanities. The same principles apply. http://bit.ly/UoL_OpenResearch UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) - https://www.ukrn.org/ - ukrn@Leeds - https://bit.ly/ukrnLeeds Research Computing https://arc.leeds.ac.uk/ Research Software Engineers ReproducibiliTea journal club - https://reproducibilitea.org/journal-clubs/#Leeds OD&PL Research culture cafes - MS Team – https://tinyurl.com/j4dfx2dz