This is the first in a series of blog posts about some of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes here in the JCU Library. These posts will give you an opportunity to get to know the University’s library staff, the work that they do, and the resources available to you at JCU. We hope these services prove useful to you in all your educational and research endeavours.
We would like to begin by introducing you to the Scholarly Communications Team!
Who are we?
- Jayshree Mamtora – Manager, Scholarly Communications (bottom, middle)
- Stephen Anderson – Research and Learning Librarian (bottom, right)
- Annette Messell – Research and Learning Librarian (top, second from left)
- Tove Lemberget – Repository and Research Outputs Coordinator (top, second from right)
- Wayne Bradshaw – Research Services Officer (top, right)
- Mel Woollett – Repository Services Officer (bottom, left)
- Paula Broughton – Repository Services Officer (top, left)
What do we do?
The Scholarly Communications Team is responsible for the coordination of library research services to support JCU academic and research staff and Higher Degree Research (HDR) students achieve research excellence. Jayshree (Manager, Scholarly Communications), provides strategic direction to the team and works with them in providing advice, support and training in a range of areas including scholarly publishing, research liaison, copyright and creative commons, and the research repository.
Our Research and Learning Librarians, Stephen and Annette, act as a point of contact, assisting staff and students with enquiries about scholarly publishing, research profiles, systematic reviews and other aspects of research, scholarship and publishing. They provide:
- specialist consultation services for discipline-based scholarly information and communications to researchers and scholars including the development of research profiles.
- the development, delivery and assessment of library liaison services that contribute to the University’s learning, teaching and research.
- coordinate the collection, classification, and verification of all the research outputs produced by JCU staff and students
- provide expert advice to researchers relating to publication strategies, including the promotion and tracking of journal articles and other outputs
- support researchers with identifying pathways to open access publishing and making work freely available to the wider public
- provide expert advice on copyright enquiries related to research outputs and theses
- assist with depositing research in ResearchOnline@JCU and updating profiles in the GECO system
What are some Key Research Resources available to you?
- The I am a Researcher web page outlines a wide range of resources and services that will support academic and researcher staff through the research process and help maximise the impact of their research. The research life cycle image below highlights the type of support that the Library can provide at each stage of the research journey.
- Our Research and Publishing Guides provide a range of advice and support for researchers of all kinds: Strategic Publishing, Open Access Publishing, Copyright for Researchers, Research Assessment and Impact, Researcher Profiles, Identifiers and Engagement, and Staying up to date: Alerting & current awareness services. Other guides of interest include: EndNote, Literature Reviews, Systematic Style Reviews and Thesis Formatting – take a look at the full range and discover more.
- We present a wide range of Research Workshops to JCU staff and students throughout the course of the year. These include workshops on Publishing for Excellence, Open Access Publishing, Research Integrity, Searching for Systematic Reviews and a series of EndNote Workshops, just to name a few.
- ResearchOnline@JCU is the online institutional repository for James Cook University. It includes a growing collection of publications and creative works which form the University's archive of research outputs of staff and higher degree research students. It enables access to JCU's research publications and to HDR theses.
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