Serving Research

This set of papers dealt with several aspects of helping others with research. The first paper, Face to Face: Expanded Services to University Researchers Delivered with a Personal Touch, discussed compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Librarians at UAB found that outreach and training took a lot of time, but also offered a great opportunity to connect with researchers.

Designing Proactive Publication Defense was presented 2nd. Mary Edwards, a librarian from UF, talked about developing ways to track faculty publications and prepare for allegations of breaching publication ethics. She brought forth several recommendations for the institution, researchers, and librarians. Those included institutions mandating data archiving, having protocols and procedures for researchers to secure files and indexing to easily find their data, and librarians to promote the IR for data storage and educate faculty and students.

Sarah Harper presented the 3rd paper - Information at Your Fingertips: Designing a Wiki to Fulfill Researcher Needs. She worked as a liaison to the ultrasound group at her institution and developed a wiki to store article information, links, and a list of journals with author instructions. She found that it helped streamline the research and literature search process as well as be replicated in other departments and institutions. The Q&A was wonderful and even brought new ideas to the author, such as adding search terms and strategies to the wiki and setting up MyNCBI email alerts for new articles.

The final paper, Designing Comprehensive Outreach in Women's Health and Sex and Gender Differences in Health, was presented by Hannah Norton (who also had a poster concerning other aspects of his topic). She and other librarians showed students the Women's Health Portal and how to use it to find information about gender and sex differences when speaking with patients or doing research. A wide variety of participants across heir campus participated in their events and librarians received very positive feedback. They found that this helped existing relationships across campus, but also created new ones with various faculty, staff, and students.