Griffith University provides advice and services to researchers around research grants, ethics and integrity, research performance, and publications and outputs. A broad-based researcher education and development program helps inform and upskill researchers and research students. From 2019, Griffith University Library has developed new services to support data-driven, data-intensive research and assist researchers through the entire research lifecycle. This chapter describes the staffing structure and the ideas underpinning a new service catalogue based around key areas, such as data management, open scholarship, and data wrangling. Methods to achieve this included a collaboratively developed knowledge base, the development of new workshops, mapping of research environments and referral pathways, and developing support for researchers for whom there is no established tool for the kinds of research they want to do. A push to establish the library as a vital and valued partner in research projects was a key driver for change.

Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for science, engineering, and other research fields. However, software itself has not traditionally received focused attention from research communities; rather, software has evolved organically and inconsistently, with its development largely as by-products of other initiatives. Moreover, challenges in scientific software are expanding due to disruptive changes in computer hardware, increasing scale and complexity of data, and demands for more complex simulations involving multiphysics, multiscale modeling and outer-loop analysis. In recent years, community members have established a range of grass-roots organizations and projects to address these growing technical and social challenges in software productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability. This article provides an overview of such groups and discusses opportunities to leverage their synergistic activities while nurturing work toward emerging software ecosystems.

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The University of Queensland (UQ) maintains an online research profiling system, UQ Researchers, to showcase the expertise of its academic staff and postgraduate students. The site makes available detailed research profiles and evidence of expertise at various levels. It incorporates school, institute and centre research profiles, CV-type profiles for individual researchers, research project and publication details, and details of available research facilities. External users can search for topical areas and seek opportunities for research collaboration. The service is often used internationally by aspiring research higher degree students who are seeking to identify institutions or individual academics with research strength in their chosen area of study. The UQ Researchers site provides access not only to the expertise and experience of individual researchers but also to that of research groups across the University. Participation in the service is currently optional. There is no mandate for inclusion.UQ Researchers offers direct data entry, as well as a data sourcing system that automatically collects information about academics and students, and their research, from UQ sources and provides it for use. Users are also welcome to add further, relevant information such as details of non-refereed publications, the collection of which is not currently done by UQ data sources.The take up of the UQ Researchers service, however, is patchy. Not all staff participate in the service, and postgraduate student take up is extremely low. This has been attributed to a number of causes, such as lack of time, lack of currency of the information provided, and reluctance on the part of staff to do direct data entry into the system. On the other hand, some staff and students were more than willing to spend time showcasing themselves and their work via social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Accordingly, it was decided to compare the functionality of a social networking service with that of UQ Researchers to identify any gaps in the UQ research profiling service and to arrive at some recommendations for improving it...

This survey was one of the activities of the APSR ORCA Support Network in 2007. Documentation of the survey and completion of the report have taken place during the first half of 2008, with the support of APSR, the ANDS Establishment Project, The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne and the Queensland University of Technology. The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR), was established in 2003 as a broad coalition of institutions promoting excellence in digital research collections for the higher education sector. APSR was supported by the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovative Action Plan for the Future. The ANDS Establishment Project has been funded by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). An digital version of this document is located at: http://www.apsr.edu.au/investigating_data_management

This document lists the pros and cons of entering 2009 HERDC data directly into UQ eSpace or entering it in an EndNote Library for later import.

Universities around the world are looking to improve the infrastructure that supports their eResearch. However, infrastructure means more than just high quality ICT. While supercomputing facilities and high speed internet connections are crucial components for successful eResearch, also important is the availability of trained technical staff to support researchers in both complex applications and networking. Sound data management practices are also vital to ensure that all research project data is both readily accessible to researchers on demand and safeguarded for the long term, so that the data can be revisited by the original research team, or eventually made available to other researchers. Academic culture, institutional capabilities and individual skills are critical components if we are to move towards a more effective research system where the potential for eResearch can be optimised. In the second half of 2007, The University of Queensland conducted a survey of the data management practices of all researchers. The survey was open to academics and post-graduate students. It sought feedback on current data management practices, including the use of formal plans, and the use of backup systems for safeguarding research datasets. The survey also aimed to identify gaps in researchers' knowledge of training and support systems currently available to them. Responses to the survey were designed to feed into future planning for eResearch infrastructure provision at the University via an eResearch Working Party which collaboratively drafted the original survey instrument. The University of Queensland followed the survey with a series of focus groups. Groups were made up of individuals who had indicated in the survey their willingness to participate in an ongoing eResearch reference group. Survey responses were probed in much greater

This document is for UQ Library liaison staff who will act as Community Administrators for their schools and centres.