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Making Women's Health Connections: Between Researchers And To Resources, Martha E. Meacham, Len L. Levin, Lisa A. Palmer, Elaine Martin

Lisa A. Palmer

The Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has recently completed the second year of a National Library of Medicine grant funded project; the Women’s Health Resources Dissemination Outreach Project. The goals include assisting women’s health researchers by providing them with access to information and making them more aware of opportunities and available resources. This, ultimately, enables both an improvement in women’s health and the advancement of women in academic medicine. Moreover, by supporting women’s health research and women researchers through the objectives of this project, women researchers build connections, knowledge, and skills. This facilitates meaningful contributions …

Utility Players: A Library's Research Services Easily Integrate Into Translational Science Support, Sally A. Gore, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Describes how an institutional repository of scholarly publications and other library services can be utilized to support the dissemination of translational science research by providing access to an institution's published research, collecting and archiving grey literature, publicizing individual and department collections, and measuring research impact via usage statistics.

Presentation during the National Program Committee Section on Translational Research, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 2012, Seattle, WA.

Cultivating Scholarship: The Role Of Institutional Repositories In Health Sciences Libraries, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

The early promise of institutional repositories is beginning to bear fruit. Medical libraries with institutional repositories, like other academic libraries, have found that their repositories support new ways of engaging with researchers and meeting the challenges posed by the transformation in scholarly communication over the past decade exemplified by open access, the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, campus-based publishing, and the sharing of research data. Institutional repositories can grow and thrive in academic health sciences libraries and be a vital component in the provision of library services to faculty, researchers, staff, and students.

Scanning The Data Environment At The University Of Massachusetts Medical School, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Sally A. Gore, Lisa A. Palmer, Andrew T. Creamer, Donna Kafel, Len L. Levin, Elaine R. Martin

Lisa A. Palmer

Objective

Environmental scanning constitutes a primary mode of organizational learning” (Choo 1999). In a step toward active development of research data support services for its community, the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has undertaken extensive environmental scanning to better understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of an academic biomedical institution with respect to research data. Given the variety of potential data services that an academic library may deploy, the information gathered from these activities will identify and prioritize new library activities.

Method

Environmental scanning activities include a survey of student’s experiences and attitudes with …

An Assessment Of Doctoral Biomedical Student Research Data Management Needs, Kate Thornhill, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Objective

This analysis explores specific institutional repository (IR) data management needs of the University’s biomedical sciences doctoral students. Awareness, intentions, attitudes, and concerns about depositing, sharing and publishing supplemental ETD (electronic thesis and dissertation) research data into the library’s institutional repository eScholarship@UMMS were explored.

Methods

A data needs assessment survey focused around the Digital Curation Centre’s lifecycle model and National Science Foundation’s requirements for data management was sent to 470 students via a listserv. Information gathered from the survey and digital repository literature aided in the construction of an overarching student data curation profile and criteria for repository functionality to …