Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR

1. What support is being
provided to researchers?
A view from a university
Nick Sheppard
Open Research Advisor
Leeds University Library
n.sheppard@leeds.ac.uk

2. • Common or garden Library research support professional(?)
• NO professional qualification
• B.A. English Literature
• NO higher degree
• Learned on the job (still learning!)
- UKCORR*
• Leeds Metropolitan University (2007)
- Mostly repositories and open access
• University of Leeds (2016)
- Research Data Management Advisor
- Open Research Advisor
Who am I?
Image courtesy of RSPB
src: https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5954/big-campus-birdwatch
*UKCORR – UK Council of Open Research and Repositories (https://www.ukcorr.org/)

3. • University of Leeds
• Research intensive
• 7 faculties
• 14 interdisciplinary research
institutes/centres
• 9,200 staff
- 3800 academic staff
• 10,000 postgraduates
- ~3700 PGRs
Where am I?

4. Library Research Support at Leeds
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR

5. • FAIR data
• Metrics & Rewards
• Scholarly Publishing
• Research Integrity
• Citizen Science
Disciplinary differences?
• STEM vs HSS
• Preprints
• Registered reports / preregistration
Skills and knowledge?

6. Library Research Support at Leeds
• Software and code
• GitHub
• Training (Python, R)
• Cloud & HPC
Research Computing
OD & PL
• Researcher development
• Research culture
• Research integrity & ethics
• Research impact
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR

7. Library Research Support at Leeds
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR

8. • Grassroots journal club initiative
• discuss diverse issues, papers and ideas about
improving science, reproducibility & Open Science
• Started in early 2018 at the University of Oxford
Some examples from Leeds
• Power and inequality in Open Science discourses
• Open source tools (geographic analysis)
• Preregistering qualitative research
ReproducibiliTea
ReproducibiliTea Online (the only
good thing about Covid)
https://reproducibilitea.org/calendar

9. • Preprints & open peer review in different disciplines
• Tools for reproducible research
• Not just for STEM: Open and reproducible research
in the social sciences
• Open from beginning to end: addressing barriers to
open research
• The greatest possible impact: The Wellcome Trust
and open research
• Preregistration and the architecture of open science
• Responsible research assessment: rethinking what
we value in research
Open lunch series
Summaries and recording on the
Library blog:
https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress
.com/tag/open-lunch/

10. https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1406/researcher_support/199/open_research

11. • One page ahead in the textbook
• Echo chamber – engage all staff/PGR?
• Disciplinary differences
- Principles vs practical support
- Local ‘champions’ / discipline experts
- TU Delft model
• Open access (the insatiable beast!)
• Culture
- Institutional
- Sectoral
• Reward and incentive
Challenges
Lets change
what we value
in research

12. • Reproducible research
• Responsible metrics
• Research culture
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• Open access
• Open data
• Open platforms, tools and services
• An open approach to conducting research
• Transparency and public engagement
What’s next?
Open Research Group
Reporting to Research Culture Group

13. Leeds University Library​
Leeds, United Kingdom​
LS2 9JT​
Library no​
library.leeds.ac.uk
Thank you
Nick Sheppard
n.sheppard@leeds.ac.uk
@mrnick
@OpenResLeeds