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This outline discusses the drivers of institutional research evaluation requirements, the role of librarians in the evaluation process, the necessary knowledge and skills, and future directions. It explores both internal and external factors that influence research evaluation, such as promotions, departmental performance, funding allocations, and external factors like REF2014, impact/value for money, performance/league tables, and grant applications/awards. The role description mentions various data elements involved in research evaluation, including outputs, environment, impact, collaboration data, usage data, and bibliometric data retrieval. It also highlights other elements like helping to find evidence of impact, verifying details of outputs, university and library liaison, training, and advocacy. The knowledge required includes an awareness of the research landscape and understanding researchers' needs, while the skills encompass attention to detail, retrieval of bibliometric data, search skills for finding evidence of impact, and processing data for evaluation and report writing. The future directions discuss the use of institutional repositories as main publications databases, developments in data and software, budget constraints, and potential combinations with other roles/skills like the Research Information Manager role.
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The role of the librarian in the Research Evaluation process Kate Bradbury Research Support, Library
Outline • Drivers of institutional research evaluation requirements • Role description • Knowledge • Skills • Future directions
Institutional research evaluation: drivers Internal factors Promotions Evaluating particular initiatives Departmental performance Funding allocations External factors • REF2014 • Impact/Value for Money • Performance/league tables • Grant applications/awards
Role description – data elements • REF 2014 – Outputs, Environment, Impact • Database/repository for outputs • Bibliometric data retrieval • Collaboration data – by institution & country • Usage & hits data • Integrating bibliometric data into repositories • Working with data providers to improve data quality [eg. affiliations] and services offered
Role description – other elements • Helping to find evidence of impact – social, economic, cultural etc • Verifying details of outputs • University liaison • Library liaison • Training & advocacy
Knowledge • Awareness of the research landscape & understanding needs of researchers. • Databases – what you can do with current databases [eg.WoK, Scopus], what is freely available [eg. ResearcherID, Google Scholar, Publish or Perish] and what might be purchased [eg. InCites, SciVal Suite] • Understanding data context and limitations.
Skills • Data – attention to detail, cross-checking. • Technical – retrieval of bibliometric data; search skills for finding evidence of impact and verifying outputs; using spreadsheets and database software. • Evaluation – processing data and writing reports. • Presenting, advocacy & training.
Some future directions • REF2014 and beyond – using the institutional repository as a main publications database; bibliometric data & evidence of impact. • Data & software developments – as database providers respond to new requirements; integration & repurposing of research data from all sources. • Budget constraints – Value for Money; shrinking university and consequently library budgets [staff, stock]. • Combination with other roles/skills eg. Research Information Manager role.
