Supporting data files for: "Scholarly communication competencies: An analysis of confidence among Australasian library staff"

For the purposes of this study, we define scholarly communication roles as roles which include: Institutional repository management, Publishing services, Research practice, Copyright services, Open access policies and the scholarly communication landscape, Data management services, and Assessment & impact metrics.

The focus of this research is on aspects of the level of confidence that librarians working in scholarly communication have in their current competencies. The focus is on questions of confidence in the core competencies of scholarly communication and the education and training background of the respondents, the latter in order to understand how respondents develop confidence in these core competencies. The research team undertook a comparative analysis of the NASIG and COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) competencies to inform their assessment of the competencies for inclusion in this study. Our analysis of the comparison is online https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/251609.

The survey used Qualtrics software. The ANU ethics panel required that no question would be compulsory, thus not all respondents answered all questions. As a result, a pre-analysis was undertaken for each of the questions to determine the number of responses for each question.

Participants were recruited through communication mediums used by the target cohort. The first completed response was received on 21 October 2020; the last was submitted on 3 December 2020. One hundred and sixty valid responses were received and analyzed using Excel and descriptive statistics for the quantitative questions, and NVivo and manual thematic coding for the qualitative questions. Each member of the team took responsibility for analysis of different quantitative questions and coding of the qualitative questions, after which the team came together and confirmed each other’s work. Initial analysis of the Confidence in Competency Areas included a set of specific Tasks for each Competency Area from matrix questions. The results from these questions were initially individually analyzed for each Competency Area. These charts demonstrated the depth of information available from these sections of the survey. We analyzed the level of confidence the responses showed across a Competency Area by adding together all of the Tasks listed in each Competency Area and then charting the total Confidence for each Competency Area.

Type
collection
Title
Supporting data files for: "Scholarly communication competencies: An analysis of confidence among Australasian library staff"
Collection Type
Dataset
Access Privileges
Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
10.25911/61dcf40c85855
Metadata Language
English
Data Language
English
Significance Statement
Responses to a survey on confidence in scholarly communication competencies in Australasia
Brief Description
Four data files: 1. Survey instrument 2. The raw responses to the survey 3. Analysis of number of responses for each question 4. File detailing how charts and tables in the paper "Scholarly communication competencies: An analysis of confidence among Australasian library staff" were generated.
Full Description

For the purposes of this study, we define scholarly communication roles as roles which include: Institutional repository management, Publishing services, Research practice, Copyright services, Open access policies and the scholarly communication landscape, Data management services, and Assessment & impact metrics.

The focus of this research is on aspects of the level of confidence that librarians working in scholarly communication have in their current competencies. The focus is on questions of confidence in the core competencies of scholarly communication and the education and training background of the respondents, the latter in order to understand how respondents develop confidence in these core competencies. The research team undertook a comparative analysis of the NASIG and COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) competencies to inform their assessment of the competencies for inclusion in this study. Our analysis of the comparison is online https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/251609.

The survey used Qualtrics software. The ANU ethics panel required that no question would be compulsory, thus not all respondents answered all questions. As a result, a pre-analysis was undertaken for each of the questions to determine the number of responses for each question.

Participants were recruited through communication mediums used by the target cohort. The first completed response was received on 21 October 2020; the last was submitted on 3 December 2020. One hundred and sixty valid responses were received and analyzed using Excel and descriptive statistics for the quantitative questions, and NVivo and manual thematic coding for the qualitative questions. Each member of the team took responsibility for analysis of different quantitative questions and coding of the qualitative questions, after which the team came together and confirmed each other’s work. Initial analysis of the Confidence in Competency Areas included a set of specific Tasks for each Competency Area from matrix questions. The results from these questions were initially individually analyzed for each Competency Area. These charts demonstrated the depth of information available from these sections of the survey. We analyzed the level of confidence the responses showed across a Competency Area by adding together all of the Tasks listed in each Competency Area and then charting the total Confidence for each Competency Area.

Contact Email
danny@dannykingsley.com
Contact Address
Visiting Fellow, ANC Public Awareness of Science College of Science The Australian National University
Contact Phone Number
+61 (0) 480 115 937
Principal Investigator
Dr Danny Kingsley
Supervisors
Dr Danny Kingsley
Collaborators
Dr Mary Anne Kennan; Dr Joanna Richardson
Fields of Research
461007 - Open access
Keywords
scholarly communication; competencies; libraries; professional development; confidence; skills
Type of Research Activity
Applied Research
Time Period
2020-2021
Date of data creation
2020
Year of data publication
2022
Publisher for Citation
The Australian National University Data Commons
Publications
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/258387
Scholarly communication competencies: An analysis of confidence among Australasian library staff
Access Rights
Open Access allowed
Access Rights Type
Open
Rights held in and over the data
This dataset is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Licence Type
CC-BY - Attribution (Version 4)
Licence
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Retention Period
Indefinitely
Extent or Quantity
4
Data Size
470KB
Data Management Plan
No
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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