Role of libraries in accelerating research

1. Role of academic libraries in accelerating research
Nikesh Narayanan
Asst Prof & IT Librarian, Zayed University, Dubai

2. Academic library services- in a nutshell
• Serves two complementary purposes:
• To support the curriculum
• To support the research
• Collection Development
• Academic libraries have transformed in the 21st century
• To focus more on information access and digital resources (born digital & gone digital)
• Less on physical collection development (print books, print journals and other print resources)
• Access to subscription-based online resources (e-databases, e-books, e-journals, e-theses, e-
data)
• Space for students to work and study
• Groups or individually on "silent floors,“
• How to access and how to use Information (In person & virtual)
• Information literacy
• Reference services (In person & virtual)

3. How libraries
can help
researchers
Facilitating Literature Search
Information Literacy and Reference services
Guiding researchers in publishing
Guiding in Managing Research Profiles
Facilitating and training in citation tools
Roles in Research Data Management

4. Literature Search

5. Facilitating
modern
Search
platforms
• Web-Scale Discovery search
• All-in-one search
• Need to know which resources are
indexed in EDS and which are not.
• Search strategy, advanced search,
refine your search result
• Google Scholar
• Library links on Google Scholar
• General Abstract and Index databases
• Examples : SCOPUS, Web of Science

6. Specific search engines
Types of Literature Where can you search
Research Data Google Dataset Search, Harvard Dataverse, Mendeley
Data
Dissertations or Theses PQDT, NDLTD Global search, OpenDOAR
Patents US Patent full-text databases , Google patents ,
Canadian Patents Database, Other international patent
offices, WIPO (World Intellectual Property
Organization)

7. Remote Access
Locally installed solutions
• EZproxy
• Other proxy services
• Shibboleth (open source
federated access)-
Example – INFED of
INFLIBNET
Cloud based Services
• Open Athens through
EBSCO
• EZproxy on cloud
• Remote XS
• Muse proxy

8. Google Scholar
Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA)
Google Scholar CASA : It is an authentication enhancement that allows individuals access to their
institution’s licensed content off-campus through Google Scholar. The pre- requisite is that the
publisher should be a participating member of this program.
How Does CASA Work?
• If a user is connected to their institutions' on-campus network and visits Google Scholar, Google will automatically
create an affiliation between that user and their school.
• This affiliation creates a seamless authentication flow between Google Scholar and publishers’ Databases enabling
them to access publishers’ content off-campus.
• The number of days depends on the publisher settings. Normally it is 30 days

9. Google
Scholar
Library links
• Library links are article-level links to
subscription full text for patrons affiliated
with a library.
• This program works best for electronic
resources, such as journal and conference
articles.
• To sign up, library needs an OpenURL-
compatible link resolver, such as 360 Link
from Serials Solutions, Full-text finder from
from EBSCO
• Contact the vendor of your link resolver to
get included in Google Scholar.

10. • Go to Google Scholar click the three horizontal bars in the corner to
view the menu. Click on that.
• Click on settings
• Click on Library Links
• Search for Your University
• Check the box " Zayed University Library – “Full-Text@ZU”
How can I connect Google Scholar to the library's resources?

11. Library links on Google Scholar result page

12. Open access
resources • Configure the Open Access Resources in
Discovery search
• Popularize OA resources.

13. Open access
sources-
Books
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• Open Access Publishing in European Networks
(OAPEN)
• Open Book Publishers
• SpringerOpen Books
• Taylor & Francis Books Open Access
• Open Humanities Press: Books
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
• Gallica: The French National Library Online
• HathiTrust
• Internet Archive
• LibriVox
• Open Culture: eBooks
• Project Gutenburg

14. Open access
sources-
Journals
• BioMed Central (BMC)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Elsevier Open Access Journals
• Hindawi (Publishing Open Access Research Papers
and Journals)
• Open Biology
• Open Humanities Press (OHP): Journals
• Open Library of the Humanities
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Royal Society Open Science
• SpringerOpen
• PubMed
• Taylor & Francis Online: Open journals
• Wiley Open Access

15. Open access
sources-
Repositories
• CORE
• Directory of Open Access Repositories
• EBSCO Open Dissertations
• E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses-open
• Theses Canada
• Thesis Commons
• Shodhganga

16. Information Literacy and Reference services

17. Information
Literacy
Information literacy empowers people in all
walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create
information effectively to achieve their
personal, social, occupational and educational
goals.
- Provide IL classes
- IL classes based on curriculum requirements
- Workshops to help researchers (Citation
Management etc.)
- Online tools
- Libguides – helps to make useful guides
- LIBCAL
- Room booking
- Event Management
- Librarian appointment scheduling

18. Reference Management tools
• Open access tools
• Mendeley (https://zu.libguides.com/Mendeley)
• Zotero
• Endnote web (Free with Web of Science)
• Other tools (Subscription needed)
• Refworks
• Endnote

19. Reference
Desk
• In-person services
• Print sources
In-house reference Desk
• Online reference sources
• LibCchat
Online reference and chat tools

20. Where to publish?

21. Where to
publish
Publishing of research findings is crucial to share your
findings with others so that they can benefit from the
new knowledge you have discovered. It also gives your
project findings the opportunity to be critically
evaluated, reproduced and thus gains validity.
Help researchers to find their best journals for
publishing
• Is there a peer reviewed process?
• What is the quality of the publication?
• If a journal---do you know the Impact Factor?
• If a journal--how is it perceived within its field?
Source : https://zu.libguides.com/c.php?g=125422&p=821079

22. Finding good
journals to
publish
How to find and evaluate journals. These tools will help you.
• Scimago Journal & Country Rank
• Scopus journal list
• Web of Science Master Journal List
• Elsevier Journal Finder tool
• Wiley Journal Finder
• Springer Journal Suggester
• http://www.sjfinder.com/
• https://www.journalguide.com/
• Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)- for Bioscience topics
• Cabell's Whitelist - Subscription needed
• Journal Citation Reports - Clarivate– Subscription needed
• UGC- CARE list (For Indian Scholars)

23. SCImago journal ranking

24. Open access publications
A paper published via an open access (OA) route means that research literature is
free-to-view by anyone in the world via the internet, and to reuse with a attribution
under a Creative Commons licence, or equivalent.
Three types of OA,
• Pure ‘Gold’ OA Publishing - Articles are peer reviewed, selected and formally
published and then made available with no subscription pay-walls.
• Hybrid journals - This is the practice of making articles published in traditional
subscription journals freely available
• ‘Green’ Open Access Archiving - This relates to the practice of archiving a version
of the article somewhere other than the publisher’s website where the final
version of the article is hosted.

25. Open Access
Article publishing charges & Institutional agreements
• Authors may need to pay Article Publishing
Cost to (APC) to the publisher in most of the
cases.
• Some Universities have institutional
agreement with publishers to pay the APC.
• There are various models of Institutional
agreements.
• I am not sure the status in India. University
research office or University library can take
the initiatives for open access agreements.

26. Open access journals
• List of Open Access Publications Indexed by
Scopus
• Web of Science Master Journal List (Filter
option for open access journals)
• https://www.enago.com/academy/journal-
finder/ (certified by DOAJ)
• Scimago open access list

27. Predatory
journals
A predatory publisher is an opportunistic publishing venue that exploits the
academic need to publish but offers little reward for those using their services.
Their primary goal is to make money (i.e. there will be fees).
There is no or fake peer review process
They do not care about the quality of the work published (i.e. no or little editing
or peer-review).
They make false claims or promises (i.e. claims of impact factors and indexing).
They engage in unethical business practices (i.e. not as advertised).
They fail to follow accepted standards or best practices of scholarly publishing
(various).
Source: https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/predatory

28. Sources to identify
predatory journals
• Beall's List :
• Maintained by a librarian Jeffrey
Beall on his blog Scholarly Open
Access.
• Publishing fee but no peer review
• Deactivated the list in 2017 –
Lawsuits and threat from certain
publishers. Some anonymous
scholars still publishes the list in the
same name https://beallslist.net/
Cabells Directories
http://www2.cabells.com/ ( includes
Cabells blacklist )

29. Author
workshops &
writing
center
Libraries should take initiatives to conduct author
workshops to help researchers to get familiar with
• How to write a manuscript
• Submission procedures and publication ethics
• Peer review and what it means to an author
• Open access publishing
Establish a writing center to train users in scientific
wiring
• To enhance their language skill
• Formats of scientific writing
Subscribe Grammar checking and plagiarism
checking tools

30. Guiding in managing Research Profiles

31. Research
profile will
help a
researcher
Showcases their work to the world
Manages publications list
Helps to be identified by potential collaborators
Helps to avoid misidentification
Enables research output to be attributed to your
university
Tracks citation counts

32. Conducts
workshop on
research
profiles
ORCiD
ResearcherID
/Publoans
SCOPUS
author ID
Google
Scholar
profile

33. WHY IS
THERE A
PROBLEM?
• Name variations:
• Matthew J Buys, MJ Buys, M Buys, Matthew John Buys, ‫بايز‬،‫ماثيو‬

34. ORCiD is free
Register for
an ORCiD
http://orcid.org/
Registration takes
only 30 seconds

35. How to add
your
publications
to ORCiD
• SCOPUS
• WOS
• Crossref
• Google Scholar
• --- and more
You can add it from
The details are given in
https://zu.libguides.com/orcid

36. Google
Scholar
citations
• Google Scholar Citations lets authors set up a profile page that lists
their publications and citation metrics.
• The citation metrics are updated automatically, and you can choose to
have your list of publications updated automatically or update them
yourself.
• You can sign up for a Google Scholar Citations profile:
• Sign in to your Google account, or create one if you do not have
one.
• Go to Google Scholar and click on the My profile link.
• Follow the prompts to set up your profile and add your
publications.
• Review and complete your profile: for example, upload a photo
and double check the list of articles.
• Ensure you make your profile public if you want other people to
be able to view it.
• Visit your email inbox and click on the verification link.

37. SCOPUS
Author ID
• A Scopus Author ID is automatically
generated the first time one of your
publications is indexed in Scopus.
• To find your SCOPUS ID, search for your name
or one of your indexed publications in
SCOPUS and go to your Author Details page,
where you will find your SCOPUS ID
• Due to variant publishing names Scopus may
generate multiple IDs for the same author.
Ensure you merge all your IDs to optimize
your citation metrics.

38. How to merge your SCOPUS ID’s
• Click “Edit author profile” and follow the steps

39. Publons
from WoS
• The Publons is a free online system that provides
services for researchers to track and share their
research impact and contributions.
• The information about publications, citation
metrics from the Web of Science Core Collection,
peer-reviews and journal editing works of one
person can be located in one profile.
• Through the Publons, a researcher can express
his/her interest to be a reviewer for a journal
available in the Publons database.To have the
Publons profile, registration is required.

40. Publons:
Mastering
peer review
• Mastering Peer Review
• The Publons Academy provides a free online
training course to master peer review skills. The
course includes 10 modules. It is free and can be
completed anytime and from anywhere.
• Opportunities:
• Network with expert peer reviewers and
editors;
• Learning how the peer review process
works;
• Performing real reviews with mentor's
guidance;
• Endorsement by a mentor;
• Access to the reviews.

41. How publons
profile looks
like

42. Facilitating and training in
Citation Management tools

43. Ways to Measure Impact
Your Impact based on citations to
articles
• Comprehensive Resources with
Citation Information
• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Above databases also calculate
the h-index
Altmetrics - Web 2.0 (Likes,
Tweets, Shares)
• total-impact.org (now called
ImpactStory); CitedIn
• Plos, Scopus

44. H Index
• An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research
output. J.E. Hirsch
• The h-index is based on the set of a researcher’s most
cited papers and the number of citations that the
researcher has received in other people's publications
• “A scientist has index h if h of [his/her] Np papers have at
least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have
at most h citations each.”
• variants of h-index
• g-index
• a-index
• and more…

45. Calculating
H-Index
Article # - Times Cited
• 1-----87
• 2-----70
• 3-----46
• 5-----19
• 6-----15
• 7-----10
• 8 ---- 9
• 9 ---- 8
• 10--- 6
• 11---- 4
• 12---- 1
8 articles have been cited at
least 8 or more times and the
remaining articles have been
cited 8 or less
A scientist has index h if h of
[his/her] Np papers have at
least h citations each, and the
other (Np − h) papers have at
most h citations each

46. Author
citation
metrics in
Web of
Science
• Citation Analysis for a Known Author
You have two options for searing an Author.
1. Use Basic Search function and select Author
dropdown
2. Use Author search option
• Using the Search function, type the name of a known
author.
• On the results page, on the right hand side above the
results, click on Create Citation Report to see the
citation analysis for the author.
• The Create Citation Report option gives the numbers
for published items in each year, citations in each
year, total citations, average citations per item, and
the h-index.

48. Author
citation
metrics in
SCOPUS
• Click on Author Search.
• Type your last name, first name and affiliation
and click Search.
• Select the names that match your name.
• Click on Show Documents to see your
publications and how they were cited in Scopus.
• Click on Select All and then View Citation
Overview.
• You will see your H-Index.
• Scopus only calculates citations received since
1996

50. Research Data Management

51. What are
research
data ?
ALL MANNER OF THINGS PRODUCED IN THE
COURSE OF RESEARCH

52. What is
Research
Data
Data that are collected,
observed, or created, for
purposes of analysis to produce
original research results.

53. Types of Research data
Instrument
measurements
Experimental
observations
Still images, video
and audio
Text documents,
spreadsheets,
databases
Quantitative data
(e.g. household
survey data)
Survey results &
interview
transcripts
Simulation data,
models &
software
Slides, artefacts,
specimens,
samples
Sketches, diaries,
lab notebooks …

54. What is Research Data Management
It covers the planning, collecting, organizing,
managing, storage, security, backing up,
preserving, and sharing your data and ensures
that research data are managed according to
legal, statutory, ethical and funding body
requirements. (Whyte, A. & Tedds, J., 2011).

55. Why manage
research data
• Ensuring research integrity and reproducibility
• Increasing your research efficiency
• Ensuring research data and records are accurate,
complete, authentic and reliable
• Saving time and resources in the long run
• Enhancing data security and minimizing the risk of data
loss
• Preventing duplication of effort by enabling others to use
your data
• Meeting funding body grant requirements (if applicable)

56. What is
involved in
RDM
Data Management Planning
Creating data
Documenting data
Accessing / using data
Storage and backup
Sharing data

57. Research Data Management- Life cycle

58. FAIR principle

59. Research data management- stages

60. Data
Management
Plan (DMP)
• A data management plan (DMP) contains all the
information related to managing the data for
your project: what data, stored where by whom,
how it is looked after and when it is made public.
• A researcher needs to make the plan in
compliance with funders and Institutional
requirements
• There are various tools and best practices guides
to help in this process

61. Funding Agency requirements- Examples

62. DMP-
Common
questions
Description of data to be collected / created (i.e. content,
type, format, volume...)
Standards / methodologies for data collection &
management
Ethics and Intellectual Property (highlight any restrictions
on data sharing e.g. embargoes, confidentiality)
Plans for data sharing and access (i.e. how, when, to whom)
Strategy for long-term preservation

63. DMP tools
• DMP Tool (https://dmptool.org/) is a free,
open-source, online application service of
the University of California Curation Center of
the California Digital Library.It helps
researchers to create data management
plans.
• DMP oline https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/ by The
University of Edinburgh
• RDM Plan Template - University of
Melbourne, Australia

64. How DMP
tools help
researchers
Variety of plans based on
funder/institutional
requirements
DMP Templates
DMP Guidelines

65. Best practices in
Research Data
Management
• File organization & Formats
• Metadata
• Deal with sensitive data
• Data sharing
• Data citation

66. Guidelines for choosing formats
• When selecting file formats for archiving, the formats should ideally be:
• Non-proprietary
• Unencrypted
• Uncompressed
• In common usage by the research community
• Interoperable among diverse platforms and applications
• Fully published and available royalty-free
• Fully and independently implementable by multiple software providers on multiple
platforms without any intellectual property restrictions for necessary technology
• Developed and maintained by an open standards organization with a well-defined
inclusive process for evolution of the standard.
Ref: Stanford library

67. Some preferred file formats
Containers: TAR,
GZIP, ZIP
Databases: XML,
CSV
Geospatial: SHP,
DBF, GeoTIFF,
NetCDF
Moving images:
MOV, MPEG, AVI,
MXF
Sounds: WAVE,
AIFF, MP3, MXF
Statistics: ASCII,
DTA, POR, SAS,
SAV
Still images: TIFF,
JPEG 2000, PDF,
PNG, GIF, BMP
Tabular data: CSV
Text: XML, PDF/A,
HTML, ASCII,
UTF-8
Web archive:
WAR

68. These sites provide a detailed discussion of file formats
ANDS File formats ANDS File format guide
Stanford Libraries Best
practice for file formats
University of Leicester
File formats and
software

69. Metadata
• What is Metadata
Metadata is defined as "structured
information that describes, explains,
locates, or otherwise makes it easier
to retrieve, use, or manage an
information resource. Metadata is
often called data about data or
information about information.
Metadata Type Example
Properties
Descriptive metadata
Common fields which help users to discover
online sources through searching and
browsing
Title
Author
Subject
Genre
Publication
date
Technical metadata
Fields which describe the information
required to access the data
File type
File size
Creation
date/time
Compression
scheme
Metadata standards/schemas may vary from discipline to
discipline. Dublin Core is one of the most commonly-used
generic metadata standards.

70. Discipline specific metadata- Examples
• Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES)
• Astronomy Visualization Metadata Standard (AVMS)
• Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Learning Object
Metadata (LOM) standard:
• More examples are available in Texas Tech University
https://guides.library.ttu.edu/c.php?g=765394&p=5697292

71. Sensitive data
Sensitive data can be information that is protected
against unwarranted disclosure. It can include but
not limited to personal data, proprietary data and
other restricted or confidential Data that should be
protected from unauthorised access.
Sharing Sensitive Information- Important points
• Including provision for data sharing when gaining
informed consent
• Protecting people's identities by anonymising
data where needed
• Considering controlling access to data
• Applying an appropriate licence

72. Data Sharing
• Avoid duplication
• Scientific integrity
• More collaboration
• Better research
• Increased citation
BENEFITS
• Public expectations
• Government agenda
• Institutional agenda
DRIVERS

73. Data sharing
Important points
• Institutional Policies:
• Funder Policies: Researchers should be aware of any funder
policies that may stipulate the ways and restrictions on data
dissemination and sharing.
• Research Collaboration Agreement: Researchers should come
to an agreement on how, when, and by whom the data will be
accessed, used and disseminated in the future if appropriate.
• Usage of Extant Proprietary Data: Researchers should seek
permission from the data owner or producer prior to the
sharing the original or derived data if appropriate.
• Re-use of Others’ Data: If the research data was not previously
collected by you, instead of sharing the research data,
researchers should give credit to the data producers with a
proper data citation.

74. Data repositories -
Directories
• Re3Data: Database of data repositories
• Fairsharing.org: Catalogue of databases and
related resources
• DataCite: Database of datasets and repositories
• European Union Open Data Portal: Catalogue of
open datasets
• Data Citation Index (DCI): Database of datasets
(TUoS access through the Library Web of
Science page)
• EMBL-EBI: Database of repositories and other
resources
• Google Dataset Search

75. Data
repositories-
general
• Harvard Dataverse: by Harvard University
• Dryad Digital Repository: A broad life-sciences
and medicine repository to house data
underlying publications.
• Figshare: FigShare provides limited free storage
space to hold research data from various
disciplines.
• Mendeley Data: An open research data
repository by Elsevier, where researchers can
store and share their research data.
• Zenodo: A repository for research outputs from
all fields of science.
• https://ckan.org/

76. Subject specific repositories
• Chemistry
• Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank
• Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
• ChemSpider
• ChemSynthesis
• Crystallography Open Database
• PubChem
• Computer Science
• CodePlex Archive:.
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA
• GitHub
• Launchpad:
• SourceForge
• Earth and Environmental Science
• Climate Change Knowlegde Portal:
• National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
• National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• Geoscience
• Geospatial at Data.gov
• Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS)
• NASA's Earthdata
• National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA)
• Biology and Life SciencesT
• he Cell Image Library
• Plant Expression Database (PLEXdb
• Universal Protein Resource (UniProt
• Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB):.
• Humanities
• Archaeology Data Service (ADS):
• ACultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
• National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC): TextGrid
• the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)
• Open Context
• Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy
• HEPData:.
• National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC)
• NIST Atomic Spectra Database
• NoMaD Repository
• UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC):
• Social Sciences
• Australian Data Archive
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR):
• Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
• UK Data Archive

77. How libraries
can engage in
RDM
defining the institutional strategy
developing RDM policy
delivering training courses
helping researchers to write DMPs
advising on data sharing and citation
setting up data repositories

78. Why should
libraries
support
RDM?
existing data and
open access
leadership roles
often run
publication
repositories
have good
relationships with
researchers
proven liaison and
negotiation skills
knowledge of
information
management,
metadata etc
highly relevant skill
set

79. Possible
Library RDM
Roles
Leading on (institutional) data policy
Bringing data into undergraduate research-based learning
Teaching data literacy to postgraduate students
Developing researcher data awareness
Providing advice, e.g. on writing DMPs
Explaining the impact of sharing data, and how to cite data
Developing and managing access to data collections
Documenting what datasets an institution has
Promoting data reuse by making known what is available

80. Potential
Challenges
How deep is our understanding of
research, especially scientific research and
our level of subject knowledge?
Translating library practices to research
data issues
Will researchers look to libraries for this
support?
Still need to resource and develop
infrastructure

81. Thank you