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• Be Seen: Getting Started with Understanding Research Impact

  It can be overwhelming to make sense of all the systems, tools, terminology and scores floating around in discussions of research impact. In this workshop, University of Michigan Research Impact and Information Science Librarian Rebecca Welzenbach will address some basic definitions and contexts – including what we mean by the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), h-index and others – and some strengths and weaknesses of these metrics. The webinar will also focus on a few key tasks you can do to set yourself up for success – such as registering an ORCID and claiming your Google Scholar Profile – to ensure that you and your work are accurately represented and findable on the Web and in scholarly research infrastructures. Regardless of your research discipline, you will leave this workshop with a concrete understanding of how your work fits into this picture and with the tools needed to get started.

  Speaker:
  Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan Libraries 
  
  Bio:
  Rebecca Welzenbach is the Research Impact and Information Science Librarian at the University of Michigan Library, where she helps scholars understand and communicate the importance of their work and coordinates the library’s role in research impact activities on campus.

  Since 2009, she has worked in a variety of roles in the U-M libraries and press, contributing to projects such as the Text Creation Partnership, Lever Press, and Michigan Publishing’s Open Access Journals program. She earned her MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information.

• Leveraging Research Repositories to Your Benefit

  Hear from Taylor Davis-Van Atta, director of the Digital Research Commons in M.D. Anderson Library, and Dr. Reid Boehm, research data management librarian at UH Libraries. Together, they will share how using local or disciplinary repositories can benefit your research and help you increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for your work – including discoverability, links between publications and research data, and enduring records.

  Speakers:

  • Taylor Davis-Van Atta, University of Houston Libraries
  • Reid Boehm, Ph.D., University of Houston Libraries

  Bios:

  • Taylor Davis-Van Atta is director of the Digital Research Commons, a center based in M.D. Anderson Library that advocates and facilitates interdisciplinary research, and since 2012 has served as the founding editor of the multidisciplinary journal Music & Literature. His research interests include the role of social interoperability in scalable research support and sustainable infrastructure for bespoke digital research outputs.
  • Dr. Reid Boehm is Research Data Management Librarian at UH Libraries working with researchers across campus to support handling and care for their research materials and facilitating archiving, sharing, and preservation post project. Her research interests are situated at the intersection between researchers and systems, focusing on the formation of transdisciplinary networks across institutions to support development, use, and sustainability of research data repositories.