iwmw13 Turning Our Attention to Supporting Research Amber Thomas Academic Technology Manager University of Warwick

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my context By Scouten (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons

is research a blind spot?

UK changes to funding and evaluation of research OPEN ACCESS IMPACTRESEARCH DATA

research is changing Amber Thomas. "21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia". November 2012, Ariadne Issue

public engagement institutional webpages are not enough and who helps researchers with everything else?

open access remodelling peer review changes the role of the library potential for rebirth of university press so much more is public

broadening of what counts research datasets code blogs slidedecks podcasts and videos a huge range of formats on a huge range of platforms

collaboration and interdisciplinarity By Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png:Stern at de.wikipedia derivative work: Sillyfolkboy (Hierarchisches_Datenbankmodell.png) [GFDL ( or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( from Wikimedia Commons Projects don’t fit in our fixed structures Projects spread … between specialisms across departments between institutions beyond borders Research happens outside the university Outputs live outside the university

altmetrics “Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact. This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. Articles are increasingly joined by: The sharing of “raw science” like datasets, code, and experimental designs Semantic publishing or “nanopublication,” where the citeable unit is an argument or passage rather than entire article. Widespread self-publishing via blogging, microblogging, and comments or annotations on existing work “ Some fundamental questions are being asked that could change how we manage and evaluate research within universities

a more social scholarship academic networks become more visible a new currency is emerging* Currency metaphor with a nod to Dave White, Oxford TALL

research footprint monitoring Collate usage data from where your research lives and breathes Back onto your institutional webpages, through APIs, feeds and widgets

Digital Warwick Oliver Kanaan, Diving into the Splash CC BY NC

emerging themes, 6 months in visualisation social mediaanalytics databases emerging themes

reflections, 6 months in reminds me a lot of how e-learning support used to be years ago could the fees system change and student satisfaction agenda have shifted the focus toward teaching? researchers are anxious because things are changing so fast hugely political, a spectrum of drivers and a complexity of response neutral stance is that digital scholarship is digital literacy applied to the new research landscape

implications for institutional websites We have to get good at: Re-aggregating distributed content analytics Using third party specialist platforms: risk management Data and databases, throughout the lifecycle Preservation and archiving Being technology collaborators in complex projects Responsive innovation through to service provision Admitting we don’t know the answers sometimes!

Thanks! Amber Thomas Academic Technology Manager University of Warwick