1. Sustaining Networks of Researchers:
Experiences of the VIVO Collaboration at the University of Florida and The Scripps Research Institute
Beth Auten
Reference and Liaison Librarian
Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida
Co-Authors: Paula King, Linda Butson, Hannah Norton, Michele R. Tennant, Mike Conlon, VIVO Collaboration

2. What is VIVO?

3. History of VIVO Originated at Cornell University
Being expanded for national use through a $12.2 million NIH grant
Seven founding members of VIVO Collaboration – Cornell University, University of Florida, Weill Cornell Medical College, Indiana University, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Ponce School of Medicine

4. A VIVO profile will allow researchers to:
Publish the URL or link the profile to other applications.

5. Who can use VIVO?
…and many more!

6. How does VIVO work?

7. Why involve libraries and librarians?

8. The Scale of the Project

9. Sustaining the Collaboration:
Lines of Communication

10. Communication at our institutions
The Scripps Research Institute
The University of Florida
Three VIVO team members on library staff meet as needed
notification of updates and requests for testing and feedback among librarians, IT Services, VIVO PI
Communication with end users via TSRI online newsletter announcement of grant, presentation to Library Advisory Committee, national Evaluation Team site visit for usability testing with faculty
Regularly scheduled team meetings, as well as all-UF team meetings
notification of updates and requests for testing and feedback
Local VIVO wiki with weekly goals and other information
Feedback and questions from outreach visits captured via Survey Monkey
Communication with the rest of campus via in-person visits to departments, marketing and promotional materials, and other media (LibGuide, etc.)

11. Progress at our institutions
The Scripps Research Institute
The University of Florida
VIVO profiles for all 200 TSRI faculty, 26 core facilities staff, 15 scientific departments, 11 centers & programs, 16 research core facilities
Nearly 100 publications and three dozen grants entered for a single showcase department, pending national release of data harvesters
VIVO educational data exported for re-use by IT Services in the redesign of TSRI’s institutional website
VIVO profiles for all UF faculty and most staff – over 14,000 in all!
Over 8,200 publications and 15,000 grants incorporated in profiles, automated ingest from PubMed and some other data sources
Presentations about VIVO to faculty and students across the health and basic sciences
Ongoing VIVO training for librarians and library staff not on the VIVO team

12. Planning Ahead

13. The future of VIVO The Scripps Research Institute
The University of Florida
Presentations about VIVO to Liberal Arts, Education, Law, Journalism, Business, and Construction.
Presentation to Faculty Senate
Marketing posters distributed campus-wide
Training for self-editing and webpage development
Linkage between VIVO and UF’s Institutional Repository created
Automated ingest for publications (PubMed) and grants (NIH Reporter)
Daily data exchange between VIVO and IT Services faculty profile database
TSRI institutional rollout with presentations to all departments (dependent upon national VIVO release of faceted searching and PubMed harvester)

14. The grant period and beyond
The Scripps Research Institute
The University of Florida
Questions:
Who owns?
Who maintains?
Who funds?
Beyond the Health Science Center
Make VIVO usable and useful
for the rest of campus
VIVO as an information resource
Support like other library resources
Promote to new faculty, post-docs,
and others
Creation of new position:
“Data Steward”
Question:
VIVO profiles & IT profiles – how
will the systems co-exist?
Beyond the faculty
Expand to include postdoctoral fellows & graduate students
VIVO as an information resource
TSRI as a vibrant node on the national VIVO network
Promote to new hires
Leverage & extend VIVO search capabilities to library collections & resources

15. How can you become involved?
Visit VIVOweb.org to request a demo, receive more information on the project, upcoming releases, and project downloads.
Join us on Facebook at:
Find out how your institution can participate:
How you can be involved?
-We want more institutions to join the collaboration and adopt VIVO.
-Conference presentations give us the opportunity to get the word out.
- Visit VIVOweb.org for more information and Contact us with questions.

16. What is VIVO?
Mark your calendar, VIVO 2, August 24-26, 2011!