Role of information professionals in promoting research culture in universities

1. Role of
Information Professionals in
Promoting Research Culture
in Universities
Prof. Khalid Mahmood
University of the Punjab

2. University as a research
organization
 Purpose of a university
 Researchers at a university
 Role of library and information
professionals – past, present, future

3. Access to literature
 Collection development and management
◦ Ownership vs. access
◦ Acquisition policy
◦ Weeding
◦ Digital library / Institutional repository
 Information organization
◦ Cataloging, classification, indexing
 Information retrieval
◦ Searching tools (databases, discovery tools,
OPACs)
 Access to information
◦ Inter-library loan
◦ Document delivery

4. Other literature related activities
 Critical reading
 Evaluation of literature / online
information
 Literature review
◦ Narrative
◦ Systematic
◦ Meta-analysis

5. Information and research literacy
 Research methods in IL curriculum
 Research proposal writing
 Writing grant applications
 Research report writing
 Ethical use of literature / plagiarism
 Fair use, author rights, copyright,
intellectual property rights
 Citation management

6. Help researchers to disseminate
results
 Journals, publishers, conferences
 Social media for researchers
 ResearchGate, Academia.edu
 Author profiling
 ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus author profile,
Google Scholar
 Citation metrics
 Impact factor, h-index, g-index
 Altmetrics

7. Library services for
researchers
 Current awareness service and SDI
 Data services
◦ Finding data sets
◦ Research data management
 Research evaluation center
 Thesis checking
 Writing center
 Research commons
 Research support portal
◦ Research tutorials and guides
 Liaison librarians program
 Individual consultation

8. Information professionals as
researchers
 Faculty status
 Research areas
◦ Bibliometrics / scientomertics
◦ Visualization of research output
◦ Information needs and seeking behavior
◦ Information services management
 Collaboration with researchers in other
fields

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