Assessment of health sciences and science and technology librarian e-science educational needs to develop an e-science web portal for librarians

NLM’s library network: A force for outreach

“…An assessment of biomedical and science librarian eScience learner and user needs was conducted to compile and organize an online portal assembling the tools needed to address eScience capacity building. Working with key participants in NER, advisory and editorial boards were established, and the eScience Portal for New England Librarians was born [ 23 ].…”

Activities of Regional Consortia in Planning e-Science Continuing Education Programs for Librarians in New England

“…Results also showed a regional demand for e-Science and data services tools and scientific content tutorials. Respondents indicated that they were comfortable with using a variety of educational web 2.0 tools for self-guided learning and online discussions (21).…”

Professional and institutional support for RDM: A case of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

“…A common theme recurring in the literature is that researchers do not have a high level of data literacy skills, about how to organize, describe, process, store or preserve data, which confirms the urgent need for training researchers. Libraries can provide a variety of RDM services, for example, teaching RDM best practices, providing RDM consulting, helping with annotation/metadata creation, and managing an institutional repository (Creamer, Martin, & Kafel, ). Libraries are not the only actor in the RDM service landscape.…”