Open AccessSupporting Research Data Management and Open Science in Academic Libraries: a Data Librarian’s View
Author(s) -
Robin Rice
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mitteilungen der vereinigung österreichischer bibliothekarinnen and bibliothekare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2791-4011
pISSN - 1022-2588
DOI - 10.31263/voebm.v72i2.3303
Subject(s) - scarcity , information overload , promotion (chess) , upstream (networking) , publishing , work (physics) , process (computing) , world wide web , computer science , scholarly communication , public relations , open science , library management , data science , knowledge management , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , computer network , politics , law , economics , microeconomics , operating system , physics , astronomy
The ‘data revolution’ has impacted researchers across the disciplines. As if the traditional work of teaching, competing for grants and promotion, doing research and publishing results was not challenging enough, researchers are required to make fundamental changes in the way they do all of these things. A similar shift can be seen for academic librarians. Librarians who were taught to meet the needs of their users based on information scarcity now need to retrain themselves to help users deal with information overload. Moreover, librarians increasingly find themselves ‘upstream’ in the research process, trying to assist their users in managing unwieldy amounts of data when their comfort zone is firmly ‘downstream’ in the post-publication stage. Unsettling as it may be, these are exciting developments for the library profession.