NORDP 2018 Annual Research Development Conference

Idea Showcase, Session A
Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 4:30–5:30 p.m. | Regency A&B

A Framework for Effective Mentoring of Research Development Professionals

Mentoring has been identified as an essential role in the training of future researchers. Similarly, mentoring of research development professionals is vital to develop and sustain a strong research enterprise. Successful research mentor training is applied to training of mentors to support research development professionals. A tested and validated curriculum for research mentor training will be used as a model to focus on components that are most relevant to the research development profession, including competency in: maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations, assessing understanding, addressing diversity, fostering independence and promoting professional development. The application of the framework is case study driven and case studies relevant to research development professionals will be addressed. This framework can further develop research development professional mentoring, contribute to a body of knowledge of the research development profession and strengthen the research enterprise.

Presenters

Paula Carney, Meera Raja, Julia Lane


A Survey of the Landscape: Industry Partnership Programs at Emerging Public Research Universities

A Survey of the Landscape: Industry Partnership Programs at Emerging Public Research Universities. The goal of this showcase is to provide research development professionals a current survey of formalized industry partnership programs across emerging public research universities. Participants will learn about various types of industry engagement practices and programs. Participants will also learn about programs that utilize innovative strategies to ensure short-term and long-term success. It will also include lessons learned from programs that have struggled to get off the ground or faced setbacks. As federal, state and nonprofit funding arenas become increasingly competitive, public research universities must respond to the shifting research landscape by diversifying their funding streams. This means they need explore innovative industry engagement strategies to facilitate research capacity and advancement.

Presenters

Maria Martinez


A Systematic Literature Review of the Barriers and Factors that Support Sponsored Research Productivity

The goal of this systematic literature review is to describe the best practices and organizational strategies which can assist early investigators in increasing research productivity. Specifically, this review focuses on illustrating the individual researcher strategies and traits and institutional support which help develop a strong track record for sponsored research for university faculty.

Using a modified PRSMA pattern (Moher et al., 2009), the first and second authors independently searched each of the following databases: ERIC, Science Citation Index, Google Scholar, PsychInfo, and JSTOR. The search terms used were research productivity, sponsored research, research administration, academic workload and barriers/support. Next, the search terms were used to search relevant journals (i.e., Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, Journal of the National Grants Management Association, National Council of University Research Administrators Magazine, NCURA’s Research Management Review, and Journal of Research Administration). The abstracts and titles were reviewed by the first and second authors separately to ensure reliability of the search. Article abstracts included in the review needed to address at least one of the following research topics: best practices for training junior faculty on grantsmanship; barriers to sponsored research for all faculty or junior faculty; factors that support grantsmanship for tenure-track faculty; universal and personal barriers to research productivity for tenure-track faculty. Full-text articles were obtained for the included manuscripts. All authors coded the remaining articles based on purpose and methodology and sorted the articles based on research questions. Articles were then analyzed and described based on type and quality of evidence. Literature on faculty research performance suggests that a combination of key factors impact faculty research productivity.

Presenters

Rachel Goff-Albritton, Jennifer Walker, Mike Mitchell


Applying Project Management Principles to Research Development

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The Project Management Professional (PMP) is the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers. The Body of Knowledge that serves as the framework for the PMP certification is certainly applicable to research development and, specifically, proposal development. The framework is built upon five process groups for each project: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Within these five process groups are ten management knowledge areas that project managers should focus on while managing projects: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, and Stakeholders. The presenter will explain this PMP framework and how it is being applied to processes being formalized in the University of Tennessee’s Office of Research and Engagement, especially in the Research Development Team. She will explain the process of obtaining the PMP certification and the advantages the certification has brought to her day-to-day project and proposal management.

Presenters

Sharon Pound


Becoming enMESHHed in the Next Generation: Moving the Field Forward Through Mentoring, Education, Service, and Helping-Hands

Mentoring is a professional responsibility and is recognized as a vital component of professional development, and faculty support. In our growing field of Research Development, NORDP is committed to fostering a culture of mentoring, both within the organization and at member institutions. #MentoringMatters

This Idea Showcase poster highlights and showcases the NORDP Mentoring Program. The poster will provide a synopsis of mentoring resources available to NORDP members, a brief history of the program, and results of the Mentoring Program evaluation.

Participants at the Idea Showcase will come away with an understanding of available mentoring resources, including tools for the self-evaluation of skills, abilities, and challenges, as well as a framework to help identify professional development needs and establish goals. Using the materials developed by the Mentoring Committee, conference attendees will be able to bring back to their home institutions a guide for implementing similar mentoring programs.

The NORDP Mentoring Program will assist the next generation of Research Development Professionals in identifying advocates and guides to support their careers. NORDP Mentoring on-boarding materials will be made available to the membership on the NORDP website following the conference.

Presenters

David Widmer, Etta Ward, Anna Brailovsky


Building a world-class research program at a mid-size university: Lehigh’s internal grant funding

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How does a mid-size research intensive university compete to attract the best faculty and keep them productive? This is the challenge many universities face and at Lehigh an analytic approach is paired with a focus on professional development to help our faculty grow their research program. At this showcase poster, staff members from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies share their experience. Presenters will outline the seed grant program structure designed to research faculty across campus and present data on the impact of those grants on success in extramural funding. Additionally, presenters will share best practices in improving grantsmanship for extramural funding. This poster will be of broad interest to research professionals at many different universities.

Presenters

Katharine Bullard, Ainsley Lamberton, Ellen Liebenow


Centers and Institutes: The Benefits and Challenges in an Evolving Landscape

In recent years, centers and institutes have played an increasingly important role in the conduct of research at major universities. They have served as an important organizational locus for attracting research funding from federal, state, industrial, and nonprofit foundation sources of support. As a preeminent Research university with a strong core disciplinary base in departments/colleges, Binghamton’s interdisciplinary efforts is reflected in crosscutting organizational structures of university-wide and college-level research institutes and centers. These institutes and centers bring together and connect our outstanding faculty to tackle the world’s grand challenges by focusing their research in ways that incorporate and affect the needs of communities, industry, government and nonprofit stakeholders locally, nationally, and internationally. That said, University-based research centers and institutes have been criticized as failing to actually foster interdisciplinary cooperation, of lacking visibility, and of failing "to harness the intellectual potential of university faculty, especially as it concerns faculty trying to attain tenure. This showcase poster argues that centers and institutes have been the decisive factor in the expansion of the university research systems and are built to take even more of a lead role in developing interdisciplinary research projects in the current, and ever-changing landscape in higher education.

Presenters

Christi Cartwright-Wilcox


Collaborating with the Library to Manage & Showcase the Full Spectrum of Research Materials

PRESENTERS

Elsevier


 

Conducting Scenario Planning to Provide Actionable Intelligence When Outcomes and Impacts are Uncertain

Actionable intelligence—that is, information that provides guidance regarding decision making – allows university leaders to grow their organizations. While decision makers want quick answers, oftentimes there are none to be had. In the case of an open-ended question, that isn’t immediately clearly tied to an outcome, or is otherwise uncertain, scenario planning can be helpful as a method of analysis. This method is widely practiced in industry and government to imagine a range of possible futures. It illuminates potential opportunities, as well as dangers. This presentation will explore the scenario planning process as a research development tool. Attendees will be able to evaluate and incorporate best practices, pitfalls, and limitations of the method for their circumstances. Also covered will be quick tips for effective narrative writing, focus group management, and design of an easy to read graphic summary. Attendees will be able to learn the basic techniques of scenario planning and how to apply them to future-looking questions so that they can better inform their leadership regarding questions with uncertain outcomes and impacts.

Presenters

Jamie Welch


Data as stepping stones in the research river: Using data across disciplines when you’re not a data expert

Research – it’s all about discoveries from data! Unfortunately, research development often means encouraging good science and research without being an expert in the data. And as we scale up to working with interdisciplinary teams, even the researchers on the team do not understand each others’ data. Developing the general skills to talk data to many types of researchers at many different levels is essential to working with individual PIs in many disciplines, and to facilitating discussions between PIs on interdisciplinary teams. It also supports concrete grantwriting skills such as explaining data management plans, encouraging ethical handling of data, and building an effective argument on the impacts of proposed research.

This idea showcase will orient attendees to working with data across disciplines. It will introduce several “epistemologies” or underlying concepts of the nature of data, in order to help RD professionals understand the commonalities and differences among different disciplines. The discussion will present scientific, social science, humanities, and professional views of data, and then facilitate a discussion among attendees about how these different disciplinary views affect interdisciplinary teamwork. Participants will learn how to “follow the data” even when they aren’t data experts, in order to promote better grantwriting and encourage PIs to build more credible and persuasive proposals. And, it will introduce some practical tools and tips for working with U. S. government funders’ mandates about data management and ethical data handling.

Presenters

Nina Exner


Disseminating Research: Piloting a new Toolkit for Managing, Measuring and Maximizing Research

PRESENTERS

Kudos


 

Introducing the New Dimensions Platform

PRESENTERS

Digital Science


Emerging Research Engines Based on AI and Their Impact on Research Development Strategy

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Emerging research engines based on AI and Open APIs and their impact on research development strategy

Research Development professionals can now exploit the latest advances in research databases made with artificial intelligence and advanced API frameworks to uncover and extract insights and data to help their PIs and research groups make better decisions. The inputs into the research process - awarded grants - provide a current and forward-looking view of research activity, and they can now be explored under the same application lens as the outputs of the research process - publications and patents. Further, fiscal metrics that determine the value and scale of funded research projects, influence and expertise of the named awardees, and research metrics, determine resonance and impact of the outputs and PIs associated with those projects.

Sarah D-P will contextualize the usefulness of these latest innovative advances by explaining how the data insights that can be extracted from them create competitive advantage and new strategic insights, from two perspectives. Sara R, a domain expert in research metrics will be on hand to answer questions, based on experience working with technology teams in Digital Sciences and users in the field.

Sarah will utilize data analysis to explain how data can be explored and answers found to key strategic questions of interest to the PI through filters, facets, broad categories, and disease-specific categories at the front end of the application.

Sarah will present a visual overview of local level data integration, impact and future directions. This will clarify how data accessed through APIs - classifications, richer grants metadata, altmetric, and citation-based metrics - can be integrated with data in local department systems and websites to create new views on the research productivity, and also on opportunities to develop research further with the right external partners. This data can be vital in recruitment efforts, promotions, and public perception.

Presenters

Sarah DuCloux-Potter, Sara Rouhi


Faculty Writing Groups: Writers, and Mentors, and Deadlines, Oh My!

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Academic writing groups can be structured in a number of ways. Some groups focus on feedback. Others emphasize accountability and support. Still others, like the #ShutUpAndWrite Twitter groups, emphasize the need to set aside time to write, regardless of purpose, genre or peer interaction. Institutions can achieve a number of research development goals by convening and supporting faculty writing groups. Faculty engagement and commitment is particularly high when the group is structured around a particular funding opportunity deadline. The shared target date and similarity of genre and purpose provide a way of structuring such groups, even when applicants are from different disciplines. The downside of this approach is that members may view each other as competitors for limited resources. A disadvantage for smaller institutions is that there may only be one or two investigators targeting a particular opportunity deadline. At Spelman College we have joined forces with our Atlanta University Center neighbors (Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse School of Medicine) to convene and support larger and more diverse faculty writing groups. In spring 2017, we supported five humanities professors from 3 of our campuses in developing NEH fellowship applications. Research Development staff structured the group meetings around proposal development milestones (e.g. soliciting program officer feedback, submitting internal approval forms, etc.). In fall 2017, AUC research development staff convened a consortium-wide writing group to support faculty preparing applications for a new National Science Foundation opportunity for HBCUs.

Presenters

Claudia Scholz


Funder Tool Kits for Proposal Preparation and Strategy

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This poster session describes a new resource developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF) called “Funder Tool Kits.” The Funder Tool Kits are online resources for faculty researchers, specifically highlighting selected grant-making agencies, such as NSF and NIH, and special topics relating to faculty researcher needs (e.g., New Faculty support, collaboration, data management). They include news, funder priorities, funding opportunities, proposal guidance, samples and award information, and additional resources to help faculty researchers better prepare competitive submissions. The Funder Tool Kits are a collaborative effort between the UCF Libraries and Research Development Team at the UCF Office of Research and Commercialization. These Funder Tool Kits help the UCF Research Development team to provide detailed resources to a large number of faculty researchers and research administrators on campus, which contributes the University's overall infrastructure of researcher support.

Presenters

Joshua Roney


Guiding Researchers in a Shifting Landscape through a Faculty Sponsorship Program

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This Idea Showcase poster will introduce the Faculty Sponsorship Program, where a research development office selects a small cohort of faculty to create and implement customised research plans over the course of 18 months. In 2016, the Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI) at Case Western Reserve University began its Faculty Sponsorship Program with a pilot cohort of six faculty from a variety of disciplines, representing Assistant Professors through endowed Professors, and with diverse research interests. Over the course of the program, research development professionals at GLEI work one-on-one with each cohort member to hone their energy-related research and set meaningful goals to further their research portfolios.

The Faculty Sponsorship Program goes beyond typical engagement between individual researchers and research development offices. Through this program, the research development office gains an intimate understanding of the research interests, strengths and needs of a select group of faculty. The faculty hone their research development skills beyond simply grant writing, to include relationship building with key funders, strategic partnerships with other researchers, and establishing connections with industry partners. Participants in the Faculty Sponsorship Program think strategically about their areas of research and approach funding with long-term goals in mind.

This poster will share outcomes of the pilot Faculty Sponsorship Program at the Great Lakes Energy Institute with a specific focus on how program participants diversified their research funding. We will also share tools developed for the program such as the funding roadmap and customized plan which help faculty focus on specific and measurable goals to guide their progress through the program. Lessons learned from this Showcase poster will encourage and instruct attendees to build similar programs at their own institution.

Presenters

Laura Altieri, Grant Goodrich


Limited Submission Program: Tips for Efficiency and Success

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Managing a Limited Submission Program (LSP) is a challenging endeavor. Funding agencies often release opportunities with only a few weeks until the sponsor deadline and nominees need to be selected quickly. Most review committees cannot be formed ahead of time as we are not aware of upcoming limited RFA’s or applicant interest. In addition, there are typically many open competitions to manage simultaneously. These challenges, as well as many others, require creative problem solving and strong time management strategies. This poster will describe tips and tools used by UCSF’s Limited Submission Program that help our program run efficiently. Annually, UCSF’s LSP announces about 135 opportunities, forms 30 review committees, and selects over 100 faculty nominees.

These tips involve: 1) the strategies used to determine internal deadlines and which application materials to request from applicants; 2) the formation of ad hoc review committees and the management of those review committees to select nominees quickly without sacrificing a thoughtful review; 3) the benefits of using Trello as a project management tool for limited submission programs; 4) the special strategies employed to address opportunities of strategic significance to your institution; and 4) our program’s partnerships with on-campus offices like our Corporate and Foundation Relations Office and the Office of Sponsored Research toward strengthening nominees’ final applications.

Presenters

Lisa Howard, Gretchen L. Kiser


Meeting new funder requirements for “impact”: How to use altmetrics in your NIH Biosketch

With funders in the US, UK, and Europe demanding evidence of "broader impact," new metrics are required to showcase how your research is affecting your communities, key demographics (like patients or regulators), and research beyond your field. Traditional journal-based metrics like impact factor and citations take a long time to accrue and only speak to scholarly impact. We need impact metrics that are adaptive to the shifting target of funding agency requirements.

Alternative metrics can help.

This idea showcase will offer an overview of the NIH Biosketch requirements and how alternative metrics can be integrated in a meaningful way to demonstrate impact. Participants will learn:

  • A better understanding of what altmetrics are and how they are captured
  • Real-life examples of using altmetrics to support funding applications
  • Structured guidance on how they can help showcase success and help inform strategic planning within your institution

This Professional Development session is ideal for those wishing to learn new concepts and build their skills in finding innovating approaches to securing funding.

Presenters

Sara Rouhi, Stacy Konkiel


Optimizing utilization of funding opportunity databases for your research office and your faculty”

Finding promising research funding opportunities is a critical part of research development but it is also time-consuming and not the best use of our knowledge. Tools such as Pivot or other databases can automate this process, once you know how to utilize these resources effectively, which may vary among institutions. Some questions are:

  • How do you bring these tools to the attention of researchers?
  • What outreach activities and efforts are most effective?
  • Are these tools used by researchers or are they primarily used by research development professionals?
  • How can these tools be used to benefit postdocs and graduate students as well as faculty?
  • How can you make a business case for these tools - i.e., demonstrate that these tools are a good investment for the institution (especially in eras of tight funding)?

This idea showcase will address these questions, and will discuss various practices and models that institutions have adopted for the use of Pivot and similar tools.

The presenters will discuss the use of Pivot and other funding source information at their respective institutions, and what strategies they use as “best practices” in their own use of Pivot and in promoting the use of Pivot to faculty, and challenges and successes they have experienced. Realizing that many institutions do not subscribe to Pivot for cost reasons, presenters will also describe the use of other funding source resources and the pros and cons of these. Presenters will also discuss methods of communicating funding opportunities to faculty, and their experience in how these have worked at their institutions.

The goal for the poster is for attendees to gain new ideas or options on how to improve the use of funding databases in their activities with the goal of improving faculty access to and use of funding opportunity resources.

Presenters

Amanda S. Clarke, Beth Keithly, Mady Hymowitz


Proposal Peer Review: Building a Supportive Grants Culture

Research proposals are substantially improved by peer review, but faculty often do not take advantage of this valuable resource for a variety of reasons. They may not be comfortable asking colleagues for help, or may struggle to have their proposal ready in time for review. The Office for Proposal Enhancement at the University of Georgia helps overcome these barriers through our Proposal Peer Review program. The program provides an easy, structured path to peer review and proposal improvement. We coordinate the exchange of proposals between faculty members from closely related fields. Participants read and provide constructive feedback on each other’s proposals using a rubric based on the agency’s merit review criteria. After completing the peer review process, participants send their final drafts to Proposal Enhancement for review by our team of professional editors.

We hold peer review exchanges for the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program and for all NIH R01/R21 application cycles. The program provides 3 valuable services at once, as faculty receive 1) useful in-depth feedback from their peers, 2) comprehensive editing for concision, clarity, and impact, and 3) opportunities to network with faculty with compatible research interests. They also gain valuable insight through the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of their colleagues proposals.

This Idea Showcase presents compelling findings from our evaluation of this Proposal Peer Review program. We have collected quantitative data on the number of unique and repeat participants, scope of participating colleges and departments, career stage of investigators, and success rates of proposals from the program. To complement these figures, we also feature results of a qualitative survey constructed with the help of on-campus program evaluators. The poster highlights facts and figures about our program, data analysis, illuminating quotes from the surveys, lessons learned, and plans for the future.

Presenters

Claire Bolton


Say What? Research Development and Research Communications Partnerships

In the same way that multi-disciplinary research teams are able to address increasingly complex problems, connecting personnel in research development with research communications offices synergizes efforts, accomplishing a more streamlined and self-reinforcing matrix for success. Research development often resides in the pre-award arena, whereas communications often publicizes awards and other tangible successes. At ASU we asked ourselves: what if research development activities were mapped to a university communications plan such that the plan reinforced research direction and aspirations? To answer this question, our office interactions have matured into a less-transactional relationship to a much more collaborative and strategic partnership. This has resulted in better coordination across public media platforms to advance sponsored research funding efforts. Despite different outcome metrics, i.e., news stories and limited submissions approvals, our offices have found anecdotal evidence of success. In particular, national and international attention to specific research areas that in turn resulted in increased opportunities for proposals for funding; improved and consistent messaging across faculty members when speaking to the public and to program officers; and increased coordination between university and Washington D.C. representative activities. This workshop will use two example cases from ASU’s experience to discuss ways that research development and research communications can transcend reactive promotion of work to a more sustained and long-range plan. After describing the case study examples, participants in this workshop will discuss their current research development environment, identify key stakeholders, activities to establish connections with these stakeholders, and purposefully design a series of activities to advance at least one key research program.

Presenters

Faye Farmer, Heidi Gracie


Science Pubs ODU

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Science Pubs ODU began in 2015 as an effort to raise awareness locally about ODU’s efforts related to flooding and sea level rise. Capitalizing on the emerging brewing trend and breweries’ open atmospheres, the event takes research off campus and into the community space offered by local breweries. The location moves with each event to further engage community members. Featured faculty are asked to not prepare a formal presentation or rely on visual aids, but prepare their talk as a casual conversation. The idea incorporates community engagement and research awareness, both parts of the Research Strategic Plan, so it was a natural fit for a university.

Our tagline is, “A curious mind is all that’s needed.” We encourage people to come early to network and the first 20 guests receive a free drink ticket. We have a number of regulars and also see new faces at each venue depending on the topic.

We specifically target active researchers who can speak to any crowd, and have attendees from teens to fellow researchers to retirees. After the first year we focused growing the idea beyond sea level rise to showcase faculty researchers from other academic areas on campus, including physics, art, engineering, public administration, cybersecurity and more. We also partnered with the Graduate School for the hugely popular graduate student research talks.

This year, we were approached by the editor of a local publication to join in on a community-wide mental health awareness month called Mentally Healthy Norfolk. Our event, Healing Our Heroes, allowed ODU to demonstrate its involvement and support of an issue and community that plays a huge role regionally.

Presenters

Daniel Campbell, Amy Matzke-Fawcett


Three R2 Institutions’ Strategies for Resilience and Growth in Challenging Times

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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)—all R2s in the University of North Carolina system—have implemented different strategies to yield resilience and growth during challenging times.

NCAT has made strategic hires—a director of life science research, director of proposal development and director of cross disciplinary research development—and has joined HBCU- and R2-specific consortia, hired proposal development consultants, and invested in databases and systems for increased efficiency. We have implemented the business development funnel approach for resilience and growth in research funding. For increased scholarly productivity, academics have been restructured into eight colleges and one joint school (with UNCG).

UNCC established its proposal development office in 2003 and complemented this initiative by hiring a director of research for the Charlotte Research Institute in 2015. Research development is handled in CRI, while proposal development is in the proposal development office; the two directors work closely together. Like NCAT, UNCC has joined multiple research consortia and hired proposal development consultants.

UNCG has made strategic hires with complementary skillsets. Our proposal development officer has a biomedical background, while our proposal development specialist has a background in higher education policy and programs. These staff members work closely with the research offices of each school and college, providing coordinated layers of support from the department upward. Our approach complements our institution’s hybrid centralized and decentralized research administration system. Our research networks help us plant the seeds of innovative collaboration across campus.

From these and other examples, attendees will take away a set of strategies for resilience and growth to use at their own institutions.

Presenters

Paul Tuttle, Lesley Brown, Aubrey Turner


Trainee Research Opportunities: The Infrastructure and Approach at a Large, Multi-Centered Health Care System

Applied research experiences for trainees in health related fields have shown an increase in engagement in research careers long term. However, research opportunities commonly are difficult to identify and obtain. We describe the systematic approach of how research experiences are standardized at Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH). Our infrastructure includes academic affiliations and partnerships to allow us to provide opportunities to a variety of trainees internal and external to the institution. We offer research experiences to a multitude of trainees including medical students, residents, nursing students, and undergraduate students through established programs and fellowships. An established mechanism for processing research experiences enables individualized mentor-trainee pairing and tailored trainee onboarding that ensures the success of the trainee in a desired field. Offering successful research experiences benefits the institution. Not only does the institution fulfill its research and education mission but also many trainees transition into employment within the institution already possessing the training needed to be successful in their careers. Providing a multitude of trainee options in research allows for early career impact that is invaluable in preparing the next generation of health care scientists.

Presenters

Wendy Hegefeld


Collaborating with the Library to Manage & Showcase the Full Spectrum of Research Materials

Offices of Research and Sponsored Programs need to meet evolving needs from both faculty and administration. Faculty need support to comply with funding mandates that require public access to unwieldy materials including born-digital projects, streaming audio and video, and data sets. At the same time, the Research Office is under pressure to increase, track, and demonstrate the reach of their faculty's research. Across the Digital Commons community of over 500 institutions, many Offices of Research are leveraging the library's research management skills to meet these objectives.

This poster shares specific use cases of how Offices of Research are partnering with their libraries to:

  • Manage and increase the reach of research output, including patents, technical reports, and research datasets across file type and discipline
  • Connect researchers with funders, Co-Investigators in other disciplines, and industry partners
  • Demonstrate increased impact through custom readership and usage metrics that share which organizations and industries are reading the university's research

Presenters

Irene Kamotsky


Disseminating Research: Piloting a New Toolkit for Managing, Measuring and Maximizing Outreach

Presenters

Kudos


Introducing the New Dimensions Platform

Presenters

Digital Science