Item 2: Review article and OS services & tools in research libraries 2018

The review aimed to identify Open Science (OS) services, skills and competencies needed to support the researcher in her interaction with research infrastructure, seen from the European perspective and the (Danish) university library perspective. The purpose was to outline which challenges and possibilities there are for university libraries in their future work with OS, specifically how to identify the competencies needed to provide library services supporting OS.

The review consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the terms and concepts used throughout the review. OS seen from a European university and research library perspective is discussed in Chapter 2, where ground-breaking roadmaps for competence development such as LIBER and LERU are presented. In Chapter 3, the conceptual model illustrating the DEFF project’s understanding of services supporting the Open Research Ecosystem is presented. The model focuses on the main phases a researcher, in a research project, goes through. These are defined in the three sequential phases: planning, active research and publishing, with the underlying research activities of data discovery, data management, collecting & creating data, processing data, analyzing data, writing, scholarly communication, data publishing and providing access to research (data). To understand how the services identified in the model can be translated into skill and competence development, in Chapter 4 we analyze existing frameworks for Open Science education and training. This analysis includes the Edison Data Science framework, EOSC Skills and Capability Framework), The Open Science Skills Working Group Report and the matrices and models these three frameworks build on. Finally, in Chapter 5, the findings from the previous chapters are combined in a proposed 7-step model to aid libraries identify the competencies required to provide specific OS support services.

File 2.1: [in Danish] Review article: Open Science: træning og uddannelse på biblioteket
As the review is written in Danish, a short summary of the main findings are written in English in File 2.2: “Findings from the review “Open Science: training and education at the Library”
Authors: Lorna Wildgaard, Mareike C.H. Buss, Lars Nondal 

File 2.2: Findings from the review “Open Science: training and education at the Library” [original title: Open Science: træning og uddannelse på biblioteket]
File description: A summary of main findings from the review in English.
Author: Lorna Wildgaard

File 2.3: [in Danish] Overview of Open Science skills in Danish Research Libraries 2018
At the start of the project in 2018, we conducted a survey of existing Open Science services and tools in the project members’ institutions. The aim was to find a baseline and establish a common ground for the development of Research Library OS services. From a strategic point-of-view, we wanted to flag the missing services and tools, and hence exemplify with real-life instances the necessity of developing competencies for the library staff.
Authors: The project group