VALA2012 Session 1 McLean Global discoverability of graduate research: challenges and opportunities for researchers and librarians VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Academic Research Support Tuesday 7 February 2012, 10:50 - 11:20 Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-1-mclean Austin McLean, presented by Keith Furnis. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2012 and #S1AM

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Global discoverability of graduate research: challenges and opportunities for researchers and librarians

Chinese research output is now second in volume only to that of the USA, having surpassed that of Germany, UK and Japan. This paper will examine factors that impact collaboration and discoverability of global research, with a focus on China. ProQuest has recently concluded a series of research projects that focused on China regarding Chinese scholars' attitudes toward collaboration. The research also examined workflow and tools used, and constraints that influenced research behaviour. Further, this session will review challenges faced in discovering research in other languages and share ProQuest's approach toward bringing non-English language graduate work to a global audience.

VALA2012 Session 1 Parker What the library did next: strengthening our visibility in research support VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Academic Research Support Tuesday 7 February 2012, 11:25 - 11:55 Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-1-parker Rebecca Parker Swinburne University of Technology, Vic Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2012 and #S1RP

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Academic libraries have a long and proud history of supporting teaching and learning in universities. However, there is growing recognition that supporting research in line with their universities’ expectations requires new approaches and different skills from librarians. Many Australian university libraries are now appointing specialised research librarians to take on these challenges. In this paper, we show the scope for libraries to commit to developing new customer-focussed services for researchers that ensure the importance of the academic library to institutional research, while taking into account stakeholder needs and organisational expectations.

VALA2012 Session 1 Burrows Supporting research in an era of data deluge: developing a new service portfolio within Information Services at the University of Western Australia VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Academic Research Support Tuesday 7 February 2012, 10:50 - 12:30 Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-1-burrows Toby Burrows and Kate Croker University of Western Australia Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2012 and #S1TB

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The paper discusses the context and rationale for a new approach to the management of eResearch services and products, which was introduced within Information Services at the University of Western Australia in 2011. It will consider the benefits expected to flow from this new approach, as well as evaluating progress to date. It will also examine future directions, goals and expectations.

VALA2012 Session 2 Dellit Trove: the terrors and triumphs of service-based social media VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Discovery Tuesday 7 February 2012, 10:50 - 11:20 Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-2-dellit Alison Dellit and Sarah Schindeler National Library of Australia, ACT Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2012 and #S2AD

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The National Library of Australia has actively used a range of social media tools for the promotion, development and delivery of services for a number of years. In addition to whole-of-library branded activity that is managed centrally, teams elsewhere in the Library are creating niche and service-based social media channels. Using the 2011 trial of the Trove social media rollout as a case study, this paper examines the rewards and challenges associated with niche or specialised social media engagement, as well as the broader, potential implications for online engagement by cultural institutions.

VALA2012 Session 2 Sherratt Mining the treasures of Trove: new approaches and new tools VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Discovery Tuesday 7 February 2012, 11:25 - 11:55 Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-2-sherratt Tim Sherratt University of Canberra, ACT Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2012 and #S2TS

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Mining the treasures of Trove: new approaches and new tools

Recently the National Library of Australia added the 50 millionth article to its Trove newspapers database. This is an astonishing resource to anyone interested in Australia history and culture. But how do we use it? Historians armed with traditional methods of search and browse now have to 'grapple with abundance', but in doing so, new questions start to arise. How might we track not a person or an event, but an idea? This paper will introduce the possibilities of text-mining and report on some of my experiments in applying these to Trove.