Due April 2, 2018 – Input for NIH Draft Strategic Plan for Data Science

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NIH Seeks Input for Draft Strategic Plan for Data Science

In order to capitalize on the opportunities presented by advances in data science, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing a Strategic Plan for Data Science.  This plan describes NIH’s overarching goals, strategic objectives, and implementation tactics for promoting the modernization of the NIH-funded biomedical data science ecosystem.  Today, NIH published a Request for Information that seeks input from stakeholders, including members of the scientific community, academic institutions, the private sector, health professionals, professional societies, advocacy groups, patient communities, as well as other interested members of the public.

Comments can be made electronically . To ensure consideration, comments must be submitted by April 2, 2018.

Using Bibliometrics and Altmetrics to Communicate Your Scholarly and Research Impact

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Using Bibliometrics and Altmetrics to Communicate Your Scholarly and Research Impact 

Links to METRICS WORKSHOP 2-7-2018 slides and guide.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |10:00 – 11:30 am (11:30 -12:00 hands-on)

Scholars and researchers, academic departments, and universities increasingly are asked to disclose the impact of their research to external funders, for promotion and tenure review, and to measure against their peers. While the practice of measuring research impact isn’t new, the availability of new tools and methods of communication has proliferated in recent years. In this workshop, you will learn about these available metrics tools, both “traditional” (like Web of Science) and “alternative” (like Altmetric), how to incorporate these into telling the story of your research impact, and learn some of the ways you can increase your visibility as a scholar. We’ll cover a variety of metrics methods and tools that allow for the communication of impact across the disciplines.

CDL Visit to UC San Diego Library – Everything Wanted to Know about eScholarship

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Join discussions and opportunities to make eScholarship https://escholarship.org/  work for you, your department, your program. The California Digital Library’s https://www.cdlib.org/ Publications & Engagement Manager, Monica Westin and eScholarship Operations Coordinator, Justin Gondor will be on hand to present, answer questions, and field requests..

Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM. – Biomed Library Bldg. Events Room

  • 12:00 – 1:30 Part one: learn how eScholarship can work for you, your department/program
    • UCSD Health Nursing as an example (site hierarchy, CMS editing, issues that have arisen), Help center (Justin & Monica), Publishing (Monica)
    • Google analytics
    • Altmetrics
    • Other features on the way – high level (Justin)
    • OA policy/Elements (Justin)
  • 1:30 – 2:30 Deep dive into eScholarship for admins and super users
    • ORCID (Lisa Schiff – Zooming in)
    • Citations and other features on the way – detailed (Justin)
    • Submission form navigation (Monica & Justin)
  • Office hours 3:00 – 4:00pm
    • Audience – by appt

RSVP for the section you’d like to attend (UC San Diego attendees only)

Questions? scholcomm [at] ucsd [dot] edu

PhD candidate takes advantage of UC San Diego publishing partnerships

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The UC San Diego Library is engaged in another recent partnership to leverage publishing opportunities for our campus that support sustainable Open Access publishing. We are seeing engagement as we get notices from the publisher about our authors recent OA publications.

Image credit: The Great Flood of 1927 by Gil Cohen. National Guard, U.S. Govt. work

Ned Randolph published “River Activism, “Levees-Only” and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927” DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i1.1179 in Media and Communication published by Cogitatio Press. Not only does he retain copyright and licenses his work with Creative Commons license, but he has seen 240 views and 29 downloads since publishing in open access on February 9, 2018! That’s 29 downloads in three days!!

Ned Randolph is a Communication Studies PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego.

UC San Diego 2nd highest usage of any institution in North America and 7th highest usage worldwide!

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As part of UC San Diego Library’s ongoing support for Open Access, the library pledges funds to “unlatch” books in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched. We are more than pleased to learn that our support has made some impact!

From @KUnlatched Publicity & Communications:

Knowledge Unlatched presents its Open Access Heroes 2018 Berlin, 12th February 2018. Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has released its OpenAccess Heroes for 2017. The “KU Heroes” for 2017, including those institutions worldwide where the highest usage of KU titles in 2017 was recorded. UC San Diego saw the second highest usage of any institution in North America and the seventh highest usage worldwide (based on downloads from the OAPEN and JSTOR platforms)!KU_Heroes_2018

Check back with KU as they will be announcing the title lists for KU Select 2018 at the end of April, including books and journals not only in HSS but also in STEM for the first time. They’ll also be launching new partnerships with Luminos (University of California Press), OpenEdition (French language content), HAU Books (Anthropology) and Open Commons of Phenomenology (Philosophy).

UCSD-only workshop invite: metrics and altmetrics to communicate impact

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Using Bibliometrics and Altmetrics to Help Communicate Your Scholarly and Research Impact

Scholars and researchers, academic departments, and universities increasingly are asked to disclose the impact of their research to external funders, for promotion and tenure review, and to measure against their peers. While the practice of measuring research impact isn’t new, the availability of new tools and methods of communication has proliferated in recent years. In this workshop, you will learn about these available metrics tools, both “traditional” (like Web of Science) and “alternative” (like Altmetric), how to incorporate these into telling the story of your research impact, and learn some of the ways you can increase your visibility as a scholar. We’ll cover a variety of metrics methods and tools that allow for the communication of impact across the disciplines. When : Wednesday, February 7, 10:00 – 11:30 am (11:30 -12:00 hands-on) in Geisel Library Classroom 2

Questions? Interested in this workshop but the time doesn’t work for you, or you’d like to schedule something just for your research group or department? Please contact scholcomm [at] ucsd [dot] edu

And so it begins …

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Happy New Year! Welcome to CONDUIT, a blog brought to you by the UC San Diego’s Scholarly Communications Working Group. This blog is an exploration in communicating advances in scholarly communication to our campus, UC San Diego, while simultaneously engaging with the public, researchers, and scholars around the world.

We intend to act as a conduit of information on:

  • news and notices,
  • systems and tools,
  • conferences, workshops, and other professional development,
  • related research and scholarship,
  • issues and opportunities in scholarly communication,
  • and updates on UCSD scholarship and research.

Computer Catalog : Consolidated/Convair Aircraft Factory San Diego Equipment from SDASM Archives on Flickr flic.kr/p/8DvP53

One of the challenges in supporting an institution as large, research intensive, and academically diverse as UC San Diego is capturing the sustained attention of our community of researchers and academics. To raise the visibility and awareness of library services, of UCSD research, as well to empower our community to take more control of their intellectual property we take on this endeavor with the intention that we will meet the mission, vision, and values of our campus for the benefit of the institution and a global society. Naturally, as a scholarly communication program we see our mission everywhere, including prominently figuring into these excerpts from UCSD’s strategic plan:

MISSION: UC San Diego will transform California and a diverse global society by educating, generating and disseminating knowledge and creative works, and engaging in public service.

 

VISION: As a public university, it is our responsibility to give back to society by educating global citizens, discovering new knowledge, creating new technology, and contributing to our economy.

 

VALUES: To be successful, UC San Diego must remain distinctive, maximize our comparative advantages, and ensure our culture and environment exemplify our values.

 

Our entrepreneurial spirit leads to agility, risktaking, and innovative approaches to solving problems and seizing opportunities. Public service, sustainability, integrity, and ethics are core principles guiding our activities.

You are invited to submit posts or comments for public view or by private message to the UC San Diego Library Scholarly Communications Working Group – Outreach and Education subgroup (SCWG-OE). SCWG-OE 2018 members and CONDUIT Editors are Allegra Swift, Teri Vogel, and Karen Heskett.

We are following guidelines we’ve modified from the University of California, Office of Scholarly Communications blog guidelines found on our “About CONDUIT – Scope and Guidelines” page.

Please see our UC San Diego Library Scholarly Communications website for more information on support and supporters at UC San Diego.