22  ·  Survey Results:  Survey Questions and Responses
Training efforts are currently targeting faculty. Consultation/guidance is provided to faculty/graduate students
upon request. Liaison librarians have developed one or two LibGuides, addressing scholarly outputs from specific
disciplinary perspectives.
Undergraduate students and some university staff have limited access to the institutional repository, so most would not
receive usage statistics.
University-affiliated faculty, staff, and students
We focus on providing services to our primary user population, which includes faculty, students, campus
researchers, etc.
Additional Comments N=3
Note that services are not limited to specific users, but different groups have expressed different levels of interest.
This survey includes answers from the Legal Research Center (law) and University Library. Law provides service on
request by faculty and promotion committee for internal purposes only, and thus their answer to the question above
is “yes.” At University Library (UL) digital humanities are available to faculty and graduate students. Other services
not limited.
Though not limited, requests only come from faculty scholars.
5. Please enter any additional comments you have on scholarly output assessment services. N=20
All of the services listed above are provided by the University Libraries, but on an ad hoc basis (and mostly by subject
librarians) rather than in a programmatic way. In regards to the service marked as “Library is developing,” measuring
and increasing research impact is a key focus area of the developing Research Commons. Resources related to scholarly
output assessment are being gathered and eventually will be made available to researchers at the university through the
Research Commons website and blog.
Aside from institutional repository (bepress) readership reports, these services are delivered by subject
(reference) librarians.
At this time, aside from usage reports from our repository, the above-listed services are provided on a very ad hoc
basis. No library-wide programmatic approach is currently in development, however it is something that will likely be
coordinated by the Research Commons in the future.
Blogs are not scholarly output focused.
Generating reports for groups may be provided as a fee-based service depending on number of authors tracked.
It is a rapidly growing area for libraries and it is beneficial for scholars as well.
My answer makes it seem as though the library is providing services at a far greater level than we are. We now have
three librarians who have some training in the research impact area and a subject guide that describes our services. It is
a “toe in the water,” not a fully developed services.
No formal advertising of these services; assistance is available on request.
No formal program, done on ad hoc basis by librarians. Repository-related pieces are integrated into repository services.
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