Scholarly Output Assessment Activities, SPEC Kit 346

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for assistance with the process. The library is actively engaged in consultations and conversations with academic
departments to identify specific aspects of this effort where the library could play a leading role.

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for assistance with the process. The library is actively engaged in consultations and conversations with academic
departments to identify specific aspects of this effort where the library could play a leading role.

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There are varying levels of service in scholarly output assessment in our library. The Medical Center has done a lot of
forward-thinking work on this front and has been doing so for years, whereas other units are just now getting involved.
This is a major area of interest and conversation in our library system and there seem to be many opportunities for
collaborating with other campus units, but such collaborations are complex politically, strategically, procedurally,
and technically.
This survey is difficult to complete since we are in the early planning stages of a program. We are interested to find out if
there are other institutions that have made this assessment a priority and have implemented a program.
Through our distributed model, we are building expertise across our library system and across disciplines. We are being
proactive and notice the growing interest. We value the deep expertise some library faculty have already attained.
We do not have a developed program in this area, yet. This survey has prompted several conversations and ideas for
further development in this area.
We do not provide or generate reports as a normal service to our faculty/researchers. We focus on teaching them how
to use the tools and on their weaknesses and strengths. Often help is needed to formulate complicated queries in
systems like Web of Science and Scopus.
We have strong partnerships with the Office of Research & Engagement and the Office of the Provost. They have
acquired systems and look to the library to support faculty and administrators in using the systems.
We need to be more pro-active in training and development of staff in this area. Our services need a more coordinated
approach; we are now too decentralized and fractured. As a result, campus units are hiring their own in-house expertise
to do this work, side-stepping the library.
We offer the most limited, non-advertised, occasional support by a reference librarian to the occasional faculty member.
We recognize the importance of services in this area and are currently advertising for a Scholarly Communications
Librarian to develop these services.
We’re just at the beginning, and still have a lot to learn and do.
We’ve pretty much covered it. We have an established scholarly communications program, but a new librarian in the
role who is bringing a new focus on scholarly assessment. Because of this, much of the material requested is under
development, and we do not have live pages to offer links for at this time.
We understand the importance of developing library services that assist researchers throughout the lifecycle of the
research process, including evaluation. We are committed to developing research assessment service here and have
already undertaken a number of steps in that direction. These include a series of talks and seminars on the importance
of bibliometric services to support research activity of university faculty, trials of industry-standard tools, and FY16
project to develop bibliometric service.
While currently we don’t offer a dedicated advertised service called “Scholarly Output Assessment,” services of that
kind are coming as we get started with our transition to campus-wide adoption of a faculty profile system (Symplectic
Elements). This tool will enable scholars to track many aspects of their scholarly impact and scholarly communication.
The strategic initiatives manager here at the library has done (and continues to do) training with campus faculty to
understand how to use the tools available in the faculty profile system. Other assessment questions that come in are
frequently directed to the scholarly communications librarian or subject liaisons.
While subject liaisons have always provided assistance with citation reports, scholarly output assessment is not an
established, dedicated service at our institution. However, academic units started to express the desire and need

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RESPONDING INSTITUTIONS
University at Albany, SUNY
University of Alberta
Arizona State University
Boston University
Brigham Young University
University of British Columbia
University at Buffalo, SUNY
University of Calgary
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado State University
University of Connecticut
Duke University
Emory University
University of Florida
Florida State University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
University of Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Iowa
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Kansas
Kent State University
University of Kentucky
Université Laval
Louisiana State University
University of Louisville
McGill University
University of Manitoba
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
New York University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
Ohio University
Ohio State University
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University
University of Oregon
University of Ottawa
Pennsylvania State University
University of Pittsburgh
Purdue University
Queen's University
Rutgers University
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Stony Brook University, SUNY
Syracuse University
Temple University
University of Tennessee
University of Texas at Austin
Texas A&M University
University of Toronto
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
University of Washington
Washington University in St. Louis
Western University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yale University

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