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via pintiniblog de Fabrizio Tinti le 20/12/09
(source: Key Perspectives Ltd, for OCLC Research, déc. 2009)
Ce rapport tente de mettre en lumière les relations entre bibliothèques (de recherche) et mécanismes d'évaluation de la recherche dans cinq pays: Australie, Danemark, Pays-Bas, Irlande, Royaume-Uni.
Le rapport passe en revue, pour chaque pays, les thèmes suivants:
- Rôle de l'évaluation de la recherche
- Forme de l'évaluation de la recherche
- Evaluation interne
- Liens avec les financements
- Effet de l'évaluation de la recherche sur la valeur académique
- Rôle des bibliothèques de recherche (c'est moi qui souligne):
The key premise for this study was that librarians have the skills and experience that enable them to make valuable contributions to their institutions, helping to facilitate institutional responses to the requirements of national and internal research assessment systems. The extent to which they have contributed varies markedly by country, reflecting not only the nature of the prevailing research assessment regime but also the resources available within the library at the point in time where research administrators were beginning to work on their research assessment strategies. In Australia, for example, thanks to funding from the Australian government, most institutions had a tried and tested institutional repository in place at a time when they were gearing up for the Research Quality Framework initiative. Thus libraries were well positioned to strike up collaborative relationships with colleagues in the research office. The particular nature of the current assessment initiative, which has involved a qualitative review and ranking of journals, provided further opportunities for Australian librarians to contribute based on their knowledge of the publishing system and bibliometrics. Once libraries have become embedded in an institution's assessment system, not only does their operational role appear to grow but librarians begin to play a greater role in the planning process, all of which reinforces the central position of the library within an institution.
Whereas the Australian experience demonstrates how institutional repositories can be leveraged to play a greater role in facilitating the research assessment process, the situation in other countries is less positive. In the UK, libraries that possessed a useful institutional repository at the time institutions were preparing for the latest Research Assessment Exercise submission found their skills and infrastructure in demand by the research office, reflecting the Australian experience. Those libraries that could not offer technological solutions, however, have found themselves to be more peripheral to the assessment process—in the beginning at least. When research administrators discovered that they needed people with experience in information gathering and metadata expertise, often the library was called in, sometimes quite late in the process. Despite this slow beginning, libraries in the UK are engaged with the assessment process. Indeed, the plan to include bibliometrics in the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework initiative has provided a new opportunity for librarians to come to the fore, exploiting their long experience in this field.
If institutional repositories, metadata and bibliometric expertise are key to playing a central role in institutions' responses to national research assessment systems, then a number of libraries in Ireland are well positioned to play their role if a national system of assessment was to be instituted in that country. Some librarieslead in integrating research information systems with well-founded institutional repositories and are well advanced in terms of their plans to integrate bibliometric data with their existing information systems. These information assets and this infrastructure already play an important part in internal research assessments and supporting researchers' grant applications to competitive funding sources. In the Netherlands, however, libraries' role in research assessment is constrained by the nature of the system – which is run by faculties and which typically gather the evidence they need for assessment purposes themselves. Many Dutch research libraries do, however, take responsibility for running the national research information and publications system, METIS, and this may offer the opportunity to become more closely involved with the assessment process in due course. are taking the
In Denmark libraries have a history of collecting information for research assessment and librarians were involved in developing the information technology solution which underpins the new national research assessment initiative. Because the Danish assessment system has a major bibliometric component, librarians are building on their experience to offer various levels of bibliometric analysis to the research community, while at the same time investment in subject and institutional repositories continues.
- Agenda pour demain
- Bonnes pratiques en matière de support à l'évaluation de la recherche
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