1. Monash Library and sustainable eResearch
David Groenewegen
Director, Research Infrastructure
Monash University Library

2. What does the Library bring?
Desire to be part of a changing world
Existing relationships with researchers and faculty / unit research managers
Trusted partner in research
Staff with relevant transferable knowledge and skills, e.g. interviews, metadata, copyright / IP
Locus for activities relating to scholarly communication (including open access)
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

3. Doing this at Monash
Needs to be part of business as usual for researchers and us
Want to incorporate it into library outreach, teaching and training, rather than do it as an exception, or as “special”
Will provide a central point for support and development
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

4. What this will look like
Research data management is mainstreamed through:
Incorporation into training and engagement
Infrastructure for all researchers
Advice
Tools
Storage
Publication
Collaboration between Researchers, Faculties, Library, eSolutions, MeRC, MIGR and Research Office
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

5. Implementation Combination of top-down and bottom-up
Top-down – policy, infrastructure
Bottom-up – hands-on
Faculties, e.g. Pharmacy
School or centre, e.g. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Specific Workgroups
Supervisor training
Early career researchers
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

6. Outreach
Contact librarians and learning skills advisers are partnering with academics
Work underpinned by theory in the form of the Research Skills Development Framework
Information research skills regularly addressed in unit reviews, skill diagnostics, curriculum design, assessment task design, marking rubrics, etc.
Emphasis on research skills from undergrad through Honours and on to higher degrees
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

7. The Skills We Use Enabling Help with the basics Finding
What tools can they use
Referring
Knowing who/where to send them
Describing
Helping to make it sensible for the rest of the world
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

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9. The sustainability challenges going forward
Learning new things
Moving into new areas
Giving up old things
Being taken seriously
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen

10. Thanks – questions? David.Groenewegen@monash.edu Thanks to Sam Searle
Monash Library & sustainable eResearch - David Groenewegen