Research Support Services Edith Cowan University

Library

Constance Wiebrands & Julia Gross

ECU Research Support Services

• Training• Digital Repository• ERA support• Research Data Management• Bibliometrics• Evaluation of programs• Key drivers in the future

Training

Training• Graduate Research School training program

– Training in Endnote, Web of Science, Scopus, other research databases– Training higher degree by research (HDR)

student ambassadors (Train the trainer)–Delivering seminars to Graduate School and

faculty research centres (e.g. on Open access)– ECU Research Week library seminars

Online Training

• Online HDR student induction

• Research libguide• Research Data

Management libguide

Document Delivery

Digital Repository

Digital Repository and ERA

• Research Online our repository• ECU research outputs in repository• HDR theses in repository• Outputs submitted for ERA in repository• Open access journal publication (AJTE)• Librarians collaborating with Research

Office (ERA committee)

Research Data Management

• ANDS Seeding the Commons Project– Research data

planning and policy

– Data interviews– Graduate School

training• Collaborative Rese

arch Network

Bibliometrics

• Citation database training and advice

• Bibliometrics reports• Looking at further

developing the service

Possible New Research Services

• Publication advice, where to publish• Scholarly communication• Open access promotion and advice• OA and copyright• OA and funding requirements

Evaluation of programs

Plan, Do, Review, Improve

Key drivers in the future• Collaboration• Impacting along more parts of the research

chain, such as– Help with grant applications– Copyright– OA funding requirements– Data management planning– Working with research groups (embedded)

• Looking for new opportunities

Images

NERSC Franklin Cray XT4s - supercomputer cluster http://www.flickr.com/photos/berkeleylab/3592326251/

LKSC Go HD, Maestro, Classroom training http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanfordedtech/4821085179/

iStillness by Shapeshift http://www.flickr.com/photos/shapeshift/85220007/

MS clipart

URLs

ECU Library http://www.ecu.edu.au/centres/library-services/overviewGraduate Research School http://www.research.ecu.edu.au/grs/index.phpResearch Online Repository http://ro.ecu.edu.au/Seeding the Commons project http://www.research.ecu.edu.au/ori/commons/index.phpLibrary Guides http://ecu.au.libguides.com/Collaborative Research Network http://www.research.ecu.edu.au/ori/crn/