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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
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L E A R N I N G
S U P P O R T
www.tils.qut.edu.au
www.tils.qut.edu.au
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)
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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 ViceChancellor
• 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
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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
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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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Awareness and skills training
Research Support web site
Bringing
Library
and
High
Performance
Computing
(HPC)
research
support
information
together
http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/index.jsp
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Awareness and skills training
Seminars, workshops ....
The Library
and HPC are
providing a
range of
programs
• 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
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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)
ANDS is
funded from
NCRIS –
National
Collaborative
Research
Infrastructure
Service
http://ands.org.au/
• Register my data service
• Identify my data service
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Research data management
Identifying, describing, storing, sharing and reusing QUT’ s research datasets
There is
evidence
that making
research
datasets
available,
increases the
citation
count of
related
published
papers
• 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
Guidelines
http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiativ
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anning.jsp
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
Data collections already identified available via
open access online
Data collections identified and mediated access
possible
Datasets identified but not yet complete / in a
format suitable for sharing
Research activities for which data is not
sharable
Research activities with no data
Research activities interviewed, but data
collection not yet classified
Research activities not yet interviewed
Researchers no longer at QUT unable to
discuss
Quantity
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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 are
contacting 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
QUT and ANDS
are developing
a proposal to
automatically
capture
machine
generated
metadata to
contribute to
Research Data
Australia.
• 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
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Research data management
Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS)
ARCS is also
funded by
NCRIS. Its
purpose is to
develop
collaboration
services,
including
network
infrastructure
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ARCS data fabric
ARCS Grid using GRISU
ARCS OPeNDAP Digital Library
EVO videoconferencing
http://www.arcs.org.au/
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Supporting open access publishing
Increasing visibility and citations
QUT Library
will pay your
authors’
publication
fees to have
your
research
published in
the peer
reviewed
journals
from the
following
open access
publishers:
BioMedCentral (BMC)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/
Hindawi
http://www.hindawi.com/
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Supporting open access publishing
QUT ePrints
Increasing visibility and citations
Making
QUT’s peer
reviewed
research
outputs
available to
the world via
open access
• 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
QUT ePrints is ranked 22 / 666 and
the top Australian repository by
“Webometrics”
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Bibliometrics citations and ranking services
Measuring impact
Developing a
strategy to
provide
faculty and
institute
level reports
annually
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Citation services
– Scopus
– Web of Science
– Google Scholar
– QUT ePrints
Journal rankings
– ERA ranked lists
– Journal analyzer
(Scopus)
– JCR
Additional verification
– Ulrichs
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/
– PaperFirst
– ProceedingsFirst 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.
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/
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Online collaboration
Communicate with your peers around QUT, Australia, the world
eResearch
means
collaborating
with others
to bring
people,
content and
ideas
together in
new ways
• Enabling Virtual
Organisations (EVO)
videoconferencing software
• Skype
• Access Grid
http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/collaboration/evo.jsp
http://evo.arcs.org.au/evoAU/about.jsp
QUT is partnering with the Australian Research Collaboration Service
(ARCS) to bring you EVO.
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Online survey system – WorldApp Key Survey
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
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QUT account
Advice
Training
Support
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Data analysis
Working with large and complex datasets
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
• Quantitative
analysis
• Qualitative analysis
Data design
Data mining
Machine learning algorithms
Statistical analysis and statistical
software
Survey methodology and
methods
Qualitative tools including NVivo
and Leximancer
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High performance computing facility
Working with large datasets
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
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Computational cluster
Large memory system
Simulations
Data storage
Hybrid / heterogeneous
computation
– Field-programmable
gate array
– Graphics processing unit
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Programming support
Working with large and complex datasets
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
• Code optimisation
• Parallelisation
• Advice
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Data visualisation facilty
Working with large and complex datasets
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
• Advanced workstations
• 3D visualisation
capabilityies
• 3D digitisation
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Optiportal / Optiputer / Visualisation Wall
Personalised
consultancy
service
available to
researchers
and research
students
• View large images
at full resolution
• View large complex
3D models
• It’s new!
Features:
• a scalable tiled, LCD display
• a graphics processing unit cluster
• 46 gigapixels
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Issues and moving forward
TILS has a 3
year
2010-2012
Research
Support
Services
development
plan
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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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