48 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
The Libraries have partnered in the implementation of Digital Measures. This was originally with staff in the provost’s
office, who are now part of the Office of Institutional Research due to a reorganization.
The Libraries were core partners for the VIVO grant and are partners for various trainings and activities with Research
Computing, the Division of Sponsored Programs, the Graduate Editorial Office, and Office of Undergraduate Research
for training and assessment related activities including ORCIDs and more.
The library is partnering with the Office of Research Services and the Office of Planning and Institutional Research.
The University Library has primarily collaborated with other units such as the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
to implement researcher information systems and the Graduate College to facilitate electronic theses and dissertations.
The first goal of these projects is to collect and disseminate Illinois research, but over time we may see greater library
collaboration with other campus units for analytics and assessment.
The University’s Grant Assist Program is offered via The Office of the Vice-President (Research). This office
currently provides publicity, scheduling, registration, and assessment of bibliometrics/research impact workshops
provided by librarians. In addition, some faculties and/or department contacts connect with their library liaisons to
coordinate training.
The Vice President for Research helped fund our digital repository. One librarian works with the Associate Provost for
Faculty Office to present faculty development workshops, which include scholarly output assessment tools.
There is currently a university working group comprised of partners from our Research Office, School of Graduate and
Postdoctoral Studies, library, and various faculties. We’ve also worked directly with faculties or departments, with
individual faculty, communications staff, and associate deans of research to learn about their needs and either provide
information or instructions/training for them.
University’s Academic Personnel Office provides OPUS system of record for academic appointees. The library has been
working on implementing ORCID at a campus-wide level and integrating with Symplectic.
University Libraries partnered with the Office of Distance Education and eLearning to present a joint workshop
through the Research Commons covering Research in View and the Knowledge Bank (our institutional repository):
“Undisciplined Research: Planning and Publishing Across Disciplinary Boundaries.” Looking for collaborators in other
disciplines at the university? Want to hear about options for sharing your work digitally or starting a new open access
journal? Join ODEE, the Libraries’ Publishing Program, and the Knowledge Bank to learn more about valuable tools for
finding collaborators and making your work more accessible to researchers in other disciplines.
University system has purchased SciVal Experts/PURE for all system schools. We are currently working with Elsevier to
fix bugs in one instance and then may be rolling that out to campus.
Vice-President, Research Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, provost’s office
VP executive, VP research
We collaborate with University Information Technology on the implementation of Symplectic Elements and the
connection to the institutional repository.
We have more than one answer to this question. Law answered no, but UL answers both yes and no. At UL, life sciences
librarian partnered with NUIT Research Computing, FASIS/HR and others to explore ORCID options. Head of Electronic
Resources & Collection Analysis Department at UL sits on the Scholars/FASIS team.
We work closely with the Office of Research Services. Currently we’re engaged with them on implementing a new
phase of our Tools for Research @ Queen’s (TRAQ) system for managing the research cycle that includes scholarly
output assessment.