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D I V I S I O N O F T E C H N O L O G Y , I N F O R M A T I O N A N D L E A R N I N G S U P P O R T
COORDINATED RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES AT QUT, AUSTRALIA
Martin Borchert
Joseph Young
CRICOS No. 00213J
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The Authors
Martin Borchert
Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support)
Dr Joseph Young
Manager, High Performance Computing and Research (Information Technology Services)
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Purpose
The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of how QUT is developing a range of coordinated research support services.
It builds upon and updates the presentation made by Judy Stokker, Director Library Services, QUT, in 2008 - eResearch: access and support to university researchers.
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Organisational frameworks – structure
Organisation structure of the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support
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Organisational frameworks – structure
Organisation structure of QUT Library
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Organisational frameworks – structure
Organisation structure of ITS
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Organisational frameworks – people
Library • Associate Director, Library
Services (Information Resources and Research Support)
• eResearch Access Coordinator• Research Support Librarian x
2 (ERA, training, bibliometrics, data management)
• Research Data Librarians x 2 (interviews, metadata)
• Integrated Literacies Coordinator (AIRS)
• AIRS Librarian (training)
• Liaison Librarians x 25• Digital Repository Manager • Digital Repository Developer • Web Coordinator (plus two
developers)
HPC (ITS)• Manager, High Performance
Computing• Research Support Specialist x
10• Project staff • ARCS x 1• ITS Infrastructure Services staff
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Organisational frameworks – people
Division of Research and Commercialisation
Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor• Deputy Vice Chancellor
Office of Commercial Services • Consultancy and commercial
research• Continuing professional
education • International projects• CRC and Research
Infrastructure• Legal Services
Office of Research • Research development (grants
office)• Research Ethics• Research data and platform • Research budgets, finance,
administration
Research Students Centre • For future students• Research and development
courses• RHD student training• Research support services• Scholarships• Business and industry outreach
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Organisational frameworks – collaborations
• QUT Blue Print • University Research and Innovation Plan • Divisional Strategic Plan• Library Strategic Plan• ITS Strategic Plan • 2010-2012 TILS Research Support Plan • 2007-2009 TILS Research Support Plan• 2007 eResearch Action Plan
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Organisational frameworks – plans
• University Research and Innovation Committee• eResearch Working Party• TILS Research Support Committee• Research Data Management Project Steering Committee• Library Research Support Group • Faculty Liaison Teams • Transformation of Scholarly Communication• TILS Research Support Staff Skills Group• Researchers Skills Group
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Organisational frameworks – assurance
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK and Project Management Office
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Organisational frameworks – assurance
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service catalogue
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http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/index.jsp
Bringing Library
and High
Performance Computing
(HPC) research support
information together
Awareness and skills training Research Support web site
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Awareness and skills training Seminars, workshops ....
• IFN001 Advanced Information Retrieval Skills
• EndNote training • Publication strategies• Collaboration tools• Measuring impact • Using patent information • Research and copyright• Techwatch – researchers • Managing research data• Information searching
The Library and HPC are providing a
range of programs
• Bibliometrics • HPC services overview• Intro to qualitative methods• SPSS statistical software• KeySurvey online surveys• Nvivo qualitative software• Leximancer text analysis• Making Connections –
innovation in research at QUT
http://www.kickstart.qut.edu.au/studysmart/
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Awareness and skills training Seminars, workshops ....
AIRS Online http://library.qut.edu.au/learn/airs/
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Awareness and skills training Seminars, workshops ....
https://pilot.library.qut.edu.au/index.jsp
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Research data management Policy and guidelines
QUT has developed policy and
guidelines for data
management, including and
mandate!
D/2.8 Management of research data
Guidelines for the Management of Research Data at QUT
Data Management Checklist
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
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Research data management Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
• Register my data service • Identify my data service
ANDS is funded from
NCRIS – National
Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Service
http://ands.org.au/
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Research data management Identifying, describing, storing, sharing and reusing QUT’ s research datasets
• Data Librarians identifying and describing datasets
• Automating the capture of large and key datasets
• Developing infrastructure to connect and populate Research Data Australia (with Griffith)
• QUT Research data repository and storage
• Data Management Guidelineshttp://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/datamanage/planning.jsp
There is evidence
that making research datasets
available, increases the
citation count of related
published papers
QUT is partnering with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Monash University and Griffith University
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Research data management ANDS Seeding the Commons Project
QUT has completed interviews
with researchers
on 570 research activities
Research activities / Data collections QuantityData collections already identified available via open access online
19
Data collections identified and mediated access possible
39
Datasets identified but not yet complete / in a format suitable for sharing
85
Research activities for which data is not sharable
289
Research activities with no data 109Research activities interviewed, but data collection not yet classified
37
Research activities not yet interviewed 51Researchers no longer at QUT unable to discuss
64
Current status of research activities / research data collections following research data interviews
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Research data management Sharing and reusing research metadata records and datasets
QUT’s research
data management
repository for metadata records and datasets and
links to datasets
(distributed model)
Not yet ready to use: http://datacommons.qut.edu.au; The EStore mass storage.....
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Research data management Describing QUT’ s research datasets
Research Data
Australia uses a range
of records describing collection,
party, activity, service.QUT will need to develop
metadata records.
Ellen Thompson and Craig Milne are QUT’s data librarians who arecontacting and interviewing QUT researchers to describe our Datasets from category 1 ARC and NHMRC research grants.
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Research data management Data capture project
• Identify machine generated datasets that are unique, or of significant interest
• Identify and describe the datasets
• Develop software to interface the machine
• Start data feed to Research Data Australia
• Colleen Nelson and other QUT researchers
QUT and ANDS are developing a proposal to automatically
capture machine
generated metadata to contribute to
Research Data Australia.
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Research data management Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS)
• ARCS data fabric • ARCS Grid using GRISU• ARCS OPeNDAP Digital Library• EVO videoconferencing
ARCS is also funded by NCRIS. Its
purpose is to develop
collaboration services, including network
infrastructure.
http://www.arcs.org.au/
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Supporting open access publishing Increasing visibility and citations
BioMedCentral (BMC) http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://www.plos.org/
Hindawi http://www.hindawi.com/
QUT Library will pay your
authors’ publication fees to have
your research
published in the peer reviewed journals from the following
open access publishers:
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Supporting open access publishing QUT ePrints Increasing visibility and citations
• QUT ePrints provides 23,000 records and 13,000 fulltext files.
• Indexed by Google, Google Scholar, Scirus, Scientific Commons and Australian Research Online
• Evidence that open access improves the citation count of your published versions
Making QUT’s peer reviewed research outputs available to the world via open access
QUT ePrints is ranked 22 / 666 and the top Australian repository by “Webometrics”
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Bibliometrics citations and ranking services Measuring impact
• Citation services– Scopus– Web of Science– Google Scholar – QUT ePrints
• Journal rankings– ERA ranked lists– Journal analyzer
(Scopus)– JCR
• Additional verification – Ulrichs– PaperFirst – ProceedingsFirst
Developing a strategy to provide faculty and institute level reports annually
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/
2010 developing a concept for a citation reporting service.
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Library databases Accessing the world’s literature
800 + databases accessible from on and off campus.
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/
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Library databases Quick Find .... The new generation library database access
Cross-search hundreds of library database at the same time.
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Library databases Quick Find .... The new generation library database access
Cross-search hundreds of library database at the same time.
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Online collaboration Communicate with your peers around QUT, Australia, the world
• Enabling Virtual Organisations (EVO) videoconferencing software
• Skype • Access Grid
eResearch means
collaborating with others
to bring people,
content and ideas
together in new ways
http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/collaboration/evo.jsphttp://evo.arcs.org.au/evoAU/about.jspQUT is partnering with the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) to bring you EVO.
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Online survey system – WorldApp Key Survey
• QUT account• Advice• Training• Support
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
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Data analysisWorking with large and complex datasets
• Quantitative analysis
• Qualitative analysis
Data design Data miningMachine learning algorithmsStatistical analysis and statistical softwareSurvey methodology and methodsQualitative tools including NVivo and Leximancer
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
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High performance computing facility Working with large datasets
• Computational cluster• Large memory system• Simulations• Data storage• Hybrid / heterogeneous
computation – Field-programmable
gate array – Graphics processing unit
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
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Programming supportWorking with large and complex datasets
• Code optimisation• Parallelisation• Advice
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
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Data visualisation faciltyWorking with large and complex datasets
• Advanced workstations• 3D visualisation
capabilityies• 3D digitisation
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
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Optiportal / Optiputer / Visualisation Wall
• View large images at full resolution
• View large complex 3D models
• It’s new!
Personalised consultancy
service available to researchers
and research students
Features:• a scalable tiled, LCD display• a graphics processing unit cluster• 46 gigapixels
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Issues and moving forward
• Project resources vs operationalising • Realignment of resources, but from where?• Skilling our research support staff • University professional staff vs academic staff ratio• Coordination of research support services across Library,
HPC and Research Student Centre in particular• Research data storage (sustainable business model)
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TILS has a 3 year
2010-2012 Research Support Services
development plan
