Joanna Richardson

Griffith University · Libraries

Purpose The purpose of this study is to measure the current levels of awareness of communication skills among academic librarians in degree-awarding institutions of Pakistan and to identify barriers that libraries, with the support of organizational stakeholders, could target to enhance adoption and / or improvement of these skills. Design/methodo...

Open access is a scholarly publishing model that has emerged as an alternative to traditional subscription-based journal publishing. This study explores the adoption of the open access movement worldwide and the role that libraries can play in addressing those factors which are slowing its progress within developing countries. The study has drawn u...

Through a nationwide survey of universities and research organizations in Australia and New Zealand, this article investigates the level of confidence that librarians working in scholarly communication have in their current competencies. The results show that, while respondents were generally confident across seven competency areas (institutional r...

Purpose The purpose of this study Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the important emerging trends in information technology and is slowly being implemented in libraries. The researchers have presented a brief strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis of the application of AI in Pakistani university libraries. Design/met...

This study aims to present a quantitative analysis of open access (OA) journals in the field of medicine indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The bibliographic data for this study was extracted from DOAJ and inserted into an Excel sheet for analysis. The retrieved data was analyzed by using different quantitative techniques to d...

Purpose Research support services (RSS) is an emerging and popular area in university libraries, whose increasing importance has been well documented since the early 2010s. This study aims to identify the status of RSS provided in the university libraries of Pakistan and to compare the results with relevant international studies. The research also...

This brief report discusses the early findings focussing on hospital and health service librarian responses, from a survey designed to shed light on the respondents’ self perception of their competency in specific areas of scholarly communication [Published in JoHILA (Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia]

Purpose Awareness about plagiarism is essential for the evasion of intellectual mendacity, inculcation of academic integrity and assurance of quality research. Maintaining high standards regarding academic integrity is a major challenge for higher education and research organizations. In Pakistan, resident doctors are required to submit a dissertat...

University provides advice and services to researchers around research grants, ethics and integrity , research performance, and publications and outputs. A broad-based researcher education and development program helps inform and upskill researchers and research students. From 2019, Griffith University Library has developed new services to support...

This paper examines the issue of digital capability at the research team level, specifically their ability to adapt to an uncertain digital future. Within higher education, there is a driving imperative to adapt to the new digital environment not only in areas involved in learning and teaching but also among research teams. While libraries play an...

The increased uptake of open access is having a profound impact on not only the scholarly communication lifecycle in general, but also libraries more specifically. Concurrent key forces at work within this domain, including open infrastructure, expanded definition of repositories, and reinvention of scholarly publishers, are facilitating the abilit...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the use of Google Scholar Citations’ profiling platform by library and information science (LIS) scholars in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Purposive sampling was used to collect Google Scholar Citations profiles between 15 November 2017 and 31 January 2018. Resultant data were analyzed in SPS...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of information literacy (IL) skills competency among university library professionals in Karachi, Pakistan and to address areas of concern. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was designed, using Google Forms, to collect data from 77 academic librarians working in 25 universi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the baseline model required to measure whole-of-organisation agility within a university information services division. The paper seeks to analyse the process of identifying and applying such a model. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative methodology applied is that of a single case study. T...

Purpose – This paper describes the approach taken by an Australian university library in using data visualisation to increase academic / library staff collaboration. Design / methodology / approach – The authors have undertaken a critical review of the literature as the foundation for their case study, which presents observations and reflections a...

The last decade has seen the emergence of academic social networking sites as a vehicle for scholars to promote their research and communicate with other scholars in their field. Given the small number of studies on the use of such sites by Pakistani academics, the authors conducted an exploratory study of social science faculty members at five Kar...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to help improve a higher education institution’s research profile by using existing resources and existing research outputs. Design/methodology/approach This study was based on quantitative data extracted manually from QS University Rankings-Asia 2016, the 2015 Ranking of Pakistani higher edu...

Online tools are critical to undertake successful research. Researchers use software tools as an integral part of research to process, manage, and integrate data from multiple sources. However, while institutional repositories are tackling challenges around supporting research data, little attention has been paid to the implications for repositorie...

Purpose This paper outlines principal implications for institutions, particularly universities, in supporting the increasingly complex tools which are used in the data lifecycle. Design/methodology/approach The discussion paper draws upon the experience of the authors in this domain at the institutional, national and international level. Findin...

Increasingly researchers and academic research institutions are being asked to demonstrate the quality and impact of their research. Traditionally researchers have used text-based outputs to achieve these objectives. This paper discusses the introduction and subsequent review of a new service at a major Australian university, designed to encourage...

Academic social networking sites are worthy of consideration as a tool which has the potential to support various stages of the research lifecycle, e.g. resource discovery, collaboration, and dissemination of outputs. From a library perspective, there is a role for librarians in educating academics about not only the benefits of using ASNS as a pla...

Online tools are critical to undertake successful research. Researchers use software tools as an integral part of the research process to process, manage, and integrate data from multiple sources. However, while institutional repositories are tackling challenges around supporting research data, little attention has been paid to the implications for...

There is worldwide interest in the potential of open science to increase the quality, impact, and benefits of science and research. More recently, attention has been focused on aspects such as transparency, quality, and provenance, particularly in regard to data. For industry, citizens, and other researchers to participate in the open science agend...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the research performance of Pakistani library and information science (LIS) scholars, using the altmetrics provided by ResearchGate. Design/methodology/approach Purposive sampling was used to collect profiles between 15 January 2015 and 30 April 2016 of all members of ResearchGate who had self-identified as...

Data is the new buzzword in academic libraries, as policy increasingly mandates that data must be open and accessible, funders require formal data management plans, and institutions are implementing guidelines around best practice. Given concerns about the current data management practices of researchers, this paper reports on the initial findings...

Scholarly communication plays a significant role in the development and dissemination of research outputs in library and information science (LIS). This study presents findings from a survey which examines the key attributes that characterize the publishing by Pakistani LIS scholars, i.e. academics and professionals, in national journals. A pilot-t...

Open science is providing many challenges for universities to address, including changes to cultural and work practices within both the research and the library communities. However, it has also opened up opportunities for librarians to play a pivotal role in an era of open research. This paper considers the role and responsibility of university li...

This chapter explores how disruptive change is creating emergent business models increasingly premised upon collaboration and partnership, as evidenced in the repositioning of research libraries in the support of research. It will discuss how academic research libraries are becoming partners in the research process, building upon core capabilities,...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to describe the evolution to date and future directions in research data policy, infrastructure, skills development and advisory services in an Australian university, with a focus on the role of librarians. Design/methodology/approach The authors have been involved in the development of research data services at...

In recent years, there has been considerable discussion about the key role which university libraries can play by engaging with their research community. As a result libraries are scoping, developing and implementing new roles and service models, especially in the relatively new area of research data. This article explores the specific challenges e...

Given the value of research data at the local, national and international levels, considerable attention is being focused on its management, discovery and re-use. This paper examines the current data management practices among researchers and the barriers—both perceived and real—for them to reassess those practices and, where appropriate, adopt new...

As part of its commitment to excellence in student-centred learning, Griffith University has initiated the Learning@Griffith project to assist in the delivery of the University's teaching, learning and research goals. A core component of this project is to integrate a digital repository system. This paper outlines the partnership recently formed be...

There is a driving imperative for new knowledge, approaches and technologies to empower scholarship, especially in emerging areas of inquiry. Sources of information now extend beyond the written word to include a wide range of born-digital objects. This paper examines the changing landscape in which digital scholars find, collaborate, create and pr...

As society tackles increasingly complex issues, there is a driving imperative for new knowledge, approaches and technologies to empower solutions, especially in emerging areas of inquiry. This paper discusses how federated research collections, such as Terra Nova, are being developed in Australia between collaborative partners to address this need....

Peer review has been regarded as a cornerstone of scientific research for a considerable time. Journals seeking to attract high quality scholarship rely on peer review to maintain their credentials in the publishing industry. However, over a period of time and especially given the advent of the Internet-complaints have arisen from authors, reviewer...

In view of the rapid expansion in scope of the role of repositories, storage and access methods, and metadata deployment need to be revised, specifically in view of the increase in multimedia content. The importance of web-based and legacy content is increasing, and measures for accommodating this must be examined. Data curation specialists are now...

This chapter discusses a number of difficult challenges raised by the inclusion of non-text-based content in repositories. Increased multimedia content, for example, requires streaming, increased storage, and new types of metadata. It demands the capture of more extensive descriptive metadata than traditionally used to describe a book or journal ar...

This chapter focusses on both current skill levels and projected training needs to support the emerging landscape for repositories, which encompasses new types of content. The specific combination of job skills and knowledge sets required to work on a digital repository has implications for staff recruitment, development, training and retention str...

The management of ever-increasing volumes of digital research data is one of the most pressing challenges encountered by higher education and research institutions. In this chapter, we explore some of the complex issues facing institutions attempting to manage research data and the role of repositories in managing data. Considerations affecting the...

Persistent identifiers are critical in managing online resources. Without persistence, links to online resources are likely to break and resources be effectively lost. There are a large number of persistent identification schemes available for use in repositories and it is useful to select these against criteria that include uniqueness, trustworthi...

Institutional repositories collect and expose scholarly outputs from journal articles to new content types, such as research data. The sharing of repository content with other service providers for the purpose of aggregation and discovery has always been a cornerstone of repositories across the globe. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metad...

In the changing research environment, it may be necessary either to re-evaluate a current digital repository solution to assess its suitability or to implement a brand new system. This chapter outlines potential functionality which should be assessed in light of the new types of content plus the impact of new technologies. Open-source versus commer...

Repositories collect a variety of statistics incorporating content coverage and item usage. These statistics are of value to a range of stakeholders, including researchers, institutions, funding bodies and repository managers. Repositories also play a role in the scholarly communication life cycle, as they disseminate and make discoverable scholarl...

Research institutions are under pressure to make their outputs more accessible in order to meet funding requirements and policy guidelines. Libraries have traditionally played an important role by exposing research output through a predominantly institution-based digital repository, with an emphasis on storing published works. New publishing paradi...

Universities are currently developing responses to manage the explosion of research content. There is an expectation by these institutions as well as governments, funding agencies and other stakeholders that research data will be well managed, available and accessible to users as appropriate. The large enterprise content management (ECM) platform v...

In the current Web 2.0 environment there is high expectation that libraries and IT service providers will embrace online technologies to connect with and engage their users. Some libraries, for example, have reported on their implementation of technologies to develop online communities; however there is a much greater potential to utilise this appr...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on “turning a new page” (TNP), a business improvement initiative undertaken by Scholarly Information & Research (SIR). The aim is to embed innovation and integrate e‐research and library services. SIR is part of the Information Services (INS) division at Griffith University, one of the top research uni...

University libraries worldwide are reconceptualising the ways in which they support the research agenda in their respective institutions. This paper is based on a survey completed by member libraries of the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QUL OC), the findings of which may be informative for other university libraries. After...

INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories play a critical role in the research lifecycle. Funding agencies are increasingly seeking an improved return on their investment in research. Repositories facilitate this process by providing storage of, and access to, institutional research outputs and, more recently, research data. While repositories are ge...

Scholarly Information & Research (SIR) is part of an integrated Information Services (INS) division at Griffith University, one of the top ten research universities in Australia. SIR provides library services, publication support and eResearch services to over 43,000 students and staff onsite at five campuses and online. In 2011, senior managers em...

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has taken a national leadership role in implementing a national collaborative research information infrastructure strategy. The strategy is designed to build the eResearch capability of Australia’s researchers through national initiatives and strengthened engagement in international initiatives. ANDS has...

University libraries are under pressure to ensure that their strategies and services to support researchers are aligned with the parent organization's research goals. Important to researchers are not only research information needs—which necessarily underpin their research—but also the discoverability and accessibility of their own research outputs...

There is a pressing need for universities to improve substantially their management of research data. Good research requires good management. In recognition of this principle, many major research funders worldwide either have currently or are implementing policies that require grant holders to submit data management plans for formal approval and to...

Governments worldwide are faced with the challenge of creating research e-infrastructures to not only manage but also make accessible and discoverable increasingly large amounts of research data. Universities in turn are under pressure to ensure that their research strategies and support services are aligned with these national imperatives. This pa...

In 1999 Sir John Taylor, then Director General of the UK Research Councils, talked about e-Science, i.e. global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will support it. It encompasses computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments or that uses immense dat...

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Recent reports point to an increased focus on evolving forms of research and scholarship, known as "cyberscholarship". Building content in institutional repositories is integral to supporting the future of scholarly communications and thereby supporting cyberscholarship. However the literature consistently points to the basic failure to date to emb...

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Recent studies point to an increased focus on metrics / measuring in regard to open access repositories (OAR). Whereas historically the display of download figures for popular content was a way of promoting an OAR within its respective institution, more recently interest has shifted on how to better utilise OAR usage statistics for more formalised...

This paper provides an overview of the impetus towards open access to scholarly outputs in institutional repositories. It contrasts this with two major research assessment initiatives: Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and Research Quality Framework (Australia), which focus on creating repositories restricted to assessors / expert panels for viewi...

This paper explores some of the principal issues associated with integrating library content with learning (course) management systems. A current project at Griffith University to integrate the course reading selection process within the University's LMS is used as a case study to illustrate both the associated challenges and opportunities. The pap...

In 2003 Griffith University entered into a partnership with HarvestRoad to co-develop the Hive digital repository system. Issues relating to the base architecture (structure of collection bureaus, categories and sub-categories), security, permissions, integration with the LMS, granularity of objects to be managed, content reusability, base metadata...

This paper explores the challenges facing organisations--particulary libraries and educational institutions--in getting their content in front of the end-user with the same degree of apparent ease that search engines such as Google have achieved. The author examines a range of initiatives which make more accessible material traditionally viewed as...

The changing nature of the ILMS selection process is examined in light of factors such as user expectations and behaviour, emerging technologies and standards, and the evolution of new business models .The paper focuses on core ILMS functionalities rather than federated searching and other related products. The authors include a brief discussion of...

This paper focuses on the need for educational enterprise technology infrastructures and processes to develop the integration between the various "e-services". It examines in particular the role that the ILMS could play in such an environment. The recent and rapid evolution in the past few years of libraries, ILMS vendors and integrated library sys...

This paper explores the tensions between those in government and business who wish to control the internet and those who wish to use its capabilities to introduce new types of services, and also between those who lessen the power of the individual and those who create synergisms between individuals and groups. The authors have provided an eclectic...

This paper discusses the way in which the establishment of an academic library has been managed at a new university in the ?information age?. Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland was established in 1987 as the first private university in Australia. In its ten-year history the university has suffered mixed fortunes which have been reflected in th...

Available at: http://e-publications.une.edu.au/1959.11/13297. Based upon a comprehensive survey of the research literature in narratology, three novels by Hubert Aquin are subjected to critical analysis from the viewpoint of the relationship between author and reader and therefore between narrator and narratee. 'Prochain épisode' is examined in ter...

In 1983 the Library School at Riverina College of Advanced Education examined the needs of librarians within the region for continuing education programmes. In this paper, definitions of continuing library education are canvassed, and from that base the process adopted in examining needs is outlined. The use of the search workshop strategy formed t...

The real author and real reader are flesh-and-bones people who sit at desks writing narratives or in armchairs reading them; they are outside the narrative transaction as such. The implied author is “implied” because he is reconstructed by the reader from the narrative. This paper examines the nature of the relationship between the narrator and nar...

Approximately 1120 journal articles published between 1968 and 1975 are listed in this bibliography on public services in academic libraries. The major portion of the bibliography is devoted to articles, concerning college and university libraries in the areas of: (1) audiovisual materials; (2) circulation; (3) interlibrary loan; (4) microforms; (5...

Based upon a comprehensive survey of the research literature in narratology, three novels by Hubert Aquin are subjected to critical analysis from the viewpoint of the relationship between author and reader and therefore between narrator and narratee. 'Prochain épisode' is examined in terms of the intertextual frames within the role which the implie...