Strengthening partnerships between faculty and librarians: Using scholarly research metrics to support the campus teaching and research community
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2023-10
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Hoover, Jeanne K.
Coonin, Bryna
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Academic librarians are increasingly involved in supporting faculty with scholarly communication concerns around the most effective ways to showcase their published research. Scholarly impact metrics are sometimes not uniformly understood or accepted as a measure of research success particularly when considered for recruitment, promotion, and tenure. Attention must also be paid to differences among disciplines when scholarly impact metrics are discussed. As academic librarians involved in scholarly communication, we were interested in how best to respond to our campus’ questions and on-going discussions around scholarly impact metrics. We wanted to strategically align our educational outreach to faculty as they communicate the impact of their scholarly research. In order to develop a better understanding of where our faculty stood around the issues related to scholarly research metrics a survey was created. Findings of the survey will be briefly presented, along with relevant details about the survey process itself. We will share how the results of the survey have made an impact on the strategic planning of our library’s Scholarly Communication Department and liaison librarians. We received numerous interesting responses from faculty. This session will also touch upon diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as it relates to scholarly impact metrics because some concerns were expressed in our survey results around the issue of stereotypes and implicit bias in the evaluation of faculty research. We will be prepared to engage with attendees who wish to analyze the scholarly impact needs of their own campus.
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Presented at the 65th Biennial Conference of the North Carolina Library Association, Winston-Salem, NC