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We work with the medical school quite a bit largely due to the NIH mandate.
We worked with the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development on their evaluation and eventual implementation
of SciVal.
We’ve been working with the University Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence to identify and evaluate potential
software for use in a comprehensive faculty information system.
We’ve collaborated with the California Digital Library to promote and support the UC e-Scholarship repository on
this campus.
Planning is in process N=7
Collaboration with Office of Faculty Affairs is in development. This office manages the campus instance of VIVO.
Institutional Research
Institutional Research Office: using data on publications in custom services developed on campus for tracking outputs.
Library will collaborate with academic departments and Institutional Research on the use of Digital Measures.
Office of Research
The Libraries are collaborating with the Division of Research (VPR) on an experimental basis on bibliometrics, e.g.,
quantifying the monograph output of faculty.
Work with different campus units on an ORCID implementation.
Tried to initiate a partnership N=2
Research & Innovation Services
University (provost’s office) contracted for Academic Analytics and Digital Measures. The Libraries wasn’t consulted but
after the contracts we’ve worked periodically with the Digital Measures team in the provost office.
21. Please enter any additional comments you have on scholarly output assessment partnerships. N=17
Carolina Health Informatics Program has recently relocated its offices to the Health Sciences Library and provides a
potential partnership in this area. ODUM institute for social behavior science located in Davis Library also provides
collaborative services.
Have consulted with the Office of Research staff about potential source of faculty publication data useful for populating
SciVal and VIVO (e.g., Scopus, Pubmed, Web of Science, etc.)
Instruction with SOA tools is often integrated into workshops/sessions with broader coverage. One librarian has been
invited to give special presentations to university committees (appointed by the provost’s office) to educate them on
research evaluation software and the differences between different tools.
Office of Institutional Research does an evaluation of a scholar’s impact as part of tenure review process, but said office
does not appear to provide services directly to faculty members.
Partnership with the main campus Office of Research is likely.