Higher education institutions in the United States and across the globe, are realizing the importance of enabling internal and external collaborative work, e.g., interdisciplinary research and community partnerships. In recent years, researchers have documented the benefits of organizational collaboration for research including greater efficiency, effectiveness, and enhanced research reputation. In addition, accreditors, foundations, business, and government agencies have been espousing the value of collaboration for knowledge creation and research and improved organizational functioning. As a result of both the external pressures and the known benefits, many forms of internal and external research collaborations have begun to emerge in higher education.
At the heart of this change, academic libraries, who have long been models for collaborative work, are increasingly participating in the research process by providing a widening range of research services beyond traditional reference services. Innovative library services, in areas such as bibliometric analysis, research data management, and data repositories, are evolving in response to changes in education funding and policies. These funding and policy changes have also coincided with technological developments to create opportunities for academic librarians to find new roles within their institutions and the research community. There is a growing body of literature examining these changing academic library roles, but few volumes have concentrated on how the nature of collaborative work in libraries is helping to reshape institutional research practices.
Academic Libraries and Collaborative Research Services fills that void by providing academic librarians and administrators with case studies and guidance on how academic libraries are establishing their place in this new collaborative research arena in the areas of emerging liaison roles, research data services, open access and scholarly publishing, and professional development programming. The book will also be useful to higher education administrators and institutional research officers looking for information on how to partner with libraries to increase the effectiveness of collaborative research.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Carrie Forbes
PART I: EMERGING LIAISON ROLES: FROM RESEARCH SUPPORT TO RESEARCH PARTNER
1—Changing the Liaison Role to Enhance Library Collaboration within the Academic Community
Victoria Eastes, Michelle Shea, and Dawn Harris
2—Reconnecting the Dots: An Analysis of Campus Stakeholders’ Awareness of Library Scholarly Communication Services
Emily Chan, Suzanna Conrad, Daina Dickman, and Nicole Lawson
3—Growing Deep Collaboration for Research Support
Stephanie Crowe, Laura McBrayer, and Ashley Knox
4—Student-Led, Cross-Institutional Collaboration Between France and Morocco
Paul Love, Michael Sto¨pel, and David Tresilian
5—Librarians as Research Partners for Developing Evidence Synthesis Protocols
Gregory Laynor and Stephanie Roth
6—Beyond Collaborations: Transforming Liaison Practices into Impactful Research Partnerships
Danielle Mihram and Melissa L. Miller
7—Archives and the Incarceral State: The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Museum Project
Zachary G. Stein, David N. Khey, and Scott T. Jordan
PART II: FOCUS ON DATA: RESEARCH DATA SERVICES
8—If You Offer It, They Will Come: Turning Your Interests into Action
Andrea Pritt
9—Library-IT Collaboration for Secure Data Collection and Management with REDCap
Meg Eastwood
PART III: LIBRARY AS PUBLISHER: OPEN ACCESS SERVICES AND SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
10—A Consortium Approach to Library Publishing Via Open Journal Systems
and the Texas Digital Library
Alexa Hight, Susan Elkins, David Lowe, Laura Waugh, Justin White, Kristi Park, and
Bruce E. Herbert
11—Publications Oversight Board for Open Access Journals at the University of Memphis:A Case Study
Caitlin Harrington and Kenneth Haggerty
PART IV: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR A CHANGING PROFESSION
12—Leveraging Research Information Management to Center the Library as Campus Leader
Clarke Iakovakis, Megan Macken, and Matt Upson
13—Soften Up Your Skills: Tips, Strategies and Methods to Practice and Enhance Interpersonal Skills
Jay A. Edwards
14—Expanding the Skillset: Data Literacy in Undergraduate Education
Susan E. Montgomery
About the Editor and the Contributors
