Librarians as Advocates of Social Media for Researchers: A Social Media Project Initiated by Linköping University Library, Sweden

Persson, Sassa; Svenningsson, Maria

doi:10.1080/13614533.2016.1184693

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“…Librarians at Linköping University in Sweden created a web-based information package, “Social Media and Networks for Researchers,” together with the university’s Communications and Marketing Division and Information and Communication Technologies studio. The package provides step-by-step guides to show researchers how to use social media to best distribute publications, gain visibility, and network and monitor their field [35].…”

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“…However, researchers vary greatly in their awareness, skills, use, and perceptions of these tools [28–34]. Both Persson and Svenningsson [35] and Tran and Lyon [33] recommend that librarians evaluate current knowledge and usage of relevant digital technologies among the faculty they serve to better design support services for researchers.…”

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Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Gerbig

Kirby

2019

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Objective: To better support dentistry researchers in the ever-changing landscape of scholarly research, academic librarians need to redefine their roles and discover new ways to be involved at each stage of the research cycle. A needs assessment survey was conducted to evaluate faculty members’ research support needs and allow a more targeted approach to the development of research services in an academic health sciences library.Methods: The anonymous, web-based survey was distributed via email to full-time researchers at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. The survey included twenty questions inquiring about researchers’ needs and behaviors across three stages of the research cycle: funding and grant applications, publication and dissemination, and research impact assessment. Data were also collected on researchers’ use of grey literature to identify whether current library efforts to support researchers should be improved in this area.Results: Among library services, researchers considered support for funding and grant applications most valuable and grey literature support least valuable. Researcher engagement with open access publishing models was low, and few participants had self-archived their publications in the university’s institutional repository. Participants reported low interest in altmetrics, and few used online tools to promote or share their research results.Conclusions: Findings indicate that increased efforts should be made to promote and develop services for funding and grant applications. New services are needed to assist researchers in maximizing their research impact and to increase researcher awareness of the benefits of open access publishing models, self-archiving, and altmetrics.

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Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

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Kirby

2019

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“…Changes in the way research is recorded and communicated, often incorporating datasets and other outputs besides formal publications, have created a need for expert advice by libraries on publishing, discoverability, rights management and altmetrics (Johnson, Adams Becker, Estrada, & Freeman, 2015, pp. 12-13), including the development of social media strategies to promote research (Persson & Svenningsson, 2016).…”

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New Directions for Academic Libraries in Research Staffing: A Case Study at National University of Ireland Galway

Cox

2017

New Review of Academic Librarianship

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New research needs, global developments and local shifts in emphasis are demanding a broader range of interactions by librarians with researchers and are challenging previous staffing structures. Research has a higher institutional profile and academic libraries have responded by creating new roles and staffing models, with stronger linkage across campus as partners rather than supporters. Particular circumstances at National University of Ireland Galway have shaped its Library's staffing configuration for research. These include the emergence of digital scholarship across campus, opportunities offered by a new research building, the growing importance of archives and the publication of a new institutional strategy. Significant reductions in staffing and budget are influential too. Distinctive features in the revised staffing model are organisation by function instead of subject, prioritisation of engagement with digital scholarship, distributed management of archives and special collections and a particular emphasis on contribution across multiple teams. This case study reports early gains and challenges.

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“…The vision of an e-visibility strategy to enhance research e-visibility for researchers is considered a crucial outcome and involves an instructional component as part of implementation, using an action plan in the development of an e-visibility strategy. Action plans have traditionally been successfully employed as part of instructional programmes in library training (Foxon 1994); and form part of the academic librarian's mandate to creating awareness of the understating and importance of inclusive comprehensive research metrics to enhancing e-visibility (Hobbs 2011;Johnson 2009;Persson & Svenningsson 2016).…”

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“…The PDCA (Plan-do-check-act) was employed as guidelines to the development of an e-visibility strategy allowing for defining the objectives, target group and the choice of tools to use as the intervention (Persson & Svenningsson 2016). Utilising the PDCA and incorporating appropriately identified websites and tools with social media functionalities, an effective e-visibility strategy was introduced as intervention to enhance e-visibility (Persson & Svenningsson 2016;Hobbs 2011;Johnson 2009).…”

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Measuring perceived and actual e-visibility of researchers in environmental science at a South African university

Adriaanse

Rensleigh²

2022

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This research on e-visibility aims at enhancing research impact and encapsulates the e-visibility themes: 1) research online presence, 2) researcher discoverability, and 3) online research output accessibility. This article reports on the perceived and actual e-visibility to establish the inclusive research impact of researchers based at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of South Africa. Bibliometric and altmetric data were collected from citation resources, the Web, academic social networking tools and an online survey. The results show a preference towards utilising free information resources and websites above fee based as part of the research online presence, researcher discoverability, research output accessibility and to ascertain their inclusive research impact. In addition, the results of the e-visibility survey reported positive responses and overall positive attitude and perceptions towards the e-visibility training. This research emphasises e-visibility training as part of an e-visibility strategy to increase research online presence, researcher discoverability and online research output accessibility in an attempt to enhance the researchers’ e-visibility.

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Librarians as Advocates of Social Media for Researchers: A Social Media Project Initiated by Linköping University Library, Sweden

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

New Directions for Academic Libraries in Research Staffing: A Case Study at National University of Ireland Galway

Measuring perceived and actual e-visibility of researchers in environmental science at a South African university

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