20  ·  Survey Results:  Survey Questions and Responses
Institutional repository
The Libraries is proposing that the university subscribe to ORCID to help researchers with identity management.
The library is currently collaborating with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to implement the PURE
Researcher Information System for faculty and researchers on our campus. This will include additional network maps
and an expert “fingerprint” about scholar’s output.
The library is exploring various possibilities and is in the process of hiring an Assessment Librarian to work with library
departments to develop these resources.
These are under development and in goals for the year.
We are currently building an IR that will provide usage reports for deposits.
We are evaluating software such as Altmetrics and determining how it might be used on our campus. We have librarians
who can respond to specific requests in this area.
We are in the process of re-allocating resources.
We aspire to provide better analytics for the materials in our scholarly repository; we also hope to include other
statistics, including downloads from SSRN. Also in the planning process is a workshop on maintaining a scholarly
presence online.
If you selected “Other service/Another unit provides” above, please identify the unit and briefly
describe the service. N=13
Academic departments usually provide publication reports and any associated graphs/charts.
Academic Social Media
E-Scholarship
Faculty of Medicine, Office of Institutional Research, is one example of where else this service is provided in the
university, for the purposes of marketing, funding applications, performance indicators, etc.
I believe that the tenure review committees at our university develop reports about the impact of faculty publications
during the tenure review process. The associate provost for research also maintains some metrics in these areas.
Office of Institutional Research (for tenure review). Not sure if service is provided directly to faculty.
The Faculty of Health Sciences is subscribing to SciVal to assess its faculty’s scholarly output.
The Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning provides access for deans to Academic Analytics.
The Office of the Provost sponsors and the Office of Information Technology supports Symplectic Elements, which
includes reports of citation counts, author h-index, and alt metrics for faculty publications.
University’s Office of Research funds and manages Elsevier’s SciVal Expert subscription.
Various campus groups provide additional resources and services related to scholarly output assessment, notably VIVO
and Campus IT for blog services.
Visualizations in our VIVO system (run by the provost’s office) and Elements system (run by the library).
VP Research
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