20 Dec 2017
We have enjoyed putting our traditional library skills to use in the day to day activities of the research team as we became familiar with their research process and the research domain. Having followed the work leading to the team’s current manuscript, we are now fulfilling our primary role on this team: figuring out how to archive the various research products to make them easily accessible to future researchers. With a major paper ready to be submitted in a couple of weeks, we are finalizing a plan for this.
This plan tackles research data sharing as mandated by the NIH and also following the PI’s interest in sharing as much as possible within relevant research communities such as Alzheimer’s Disease, genomics, psychometrics, etc. This will include deposit of relevant material to NIAGADS and LD-HUB, as well as archiving the final manuscript in our institutional repository along with supplemental materials and additional research products that underlie the manuscript but are broader in scope. Examples of these research products include summary statistics, p-value tables, white paper methods, code, and SNP annotations.
Our recommended plan incorporates the FAIR principles of data sharing (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Deposits to the institutional repository will be open to the public and each deposit will be assigned a DOI. Multiple deposits to other data repositories will include these DOIs pointing back to the documents of record in the institutional repository. The deposits will also be entered into major data registry sites or made available to these sites for harvesting. As much as possible, generic data formats will be used for wider interoperability. Supporting documentation including methods, software, and code will be provided for re-use.
30 Nov 2017
We’ve been busy since we first started working on the Executive Prominent Alzheimer’s Disease project with Dr. Paul Crane’s research team. We’ve spent a lot of time getting to know these wonderful team members and their research processes and couldn’t be more happier with belonging to this group!
Our long term goal is to aid in placing a well-documented, easily findable record of the research details in a public repository. Along the way, we’ve used our librarian skills to assist the team in day to day activities such as building a team reference library, conducting literature searches for new research avenues, and providing informational support for grant proposals.
As always, we are alert for opportunities to add value to our services. In an exciting new development, we have been tasked with developing a visualization assessing the co-authorship network that has resulted from a series of annual workshops that our PI is involved in. We’ve consulted our gifted colleague, Stephen Gabrielson, who came up with a network graph. We’ve broken up the tasks: obtaining bibliographic data, cleaning and processing the data, graphing the data. We are excited to produce our initial draft!
29 Apr 2017
We are University of Washington Health Sciences Librarians who use our skills, resources, and experiences in collaboration with Dr. Paul Crane’s Alzheimer’s research team. We contribute traditional and modern library services to the research and the team members. Such services include:
- literature searching for clinical, educational use
- literature searching for systematic reviews
- citation management support
- keeping up with the literature
- tracking your research impact
- facilitating archiving of research outputs for public use
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