Take-Home Points
E-Science work:
- Is data-driven, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional
- Generated by NSF requirements for data management
- Fuels the Research Life Cycle
- Pairs the needs of the Researcher with the skills of the Medical Librarians as:
- Institutional liaisons
- Creators of user guides
- Trainers in database searching and metadata schemas
- Research assistants
- Subject specialists
- Requires Data Curation services –another key role for Medical Librarians:
- Content Development, Data Mining & Dataset Management
- Data Curation service portals
- Makes digital repositories more significant than ever in providing data storage, access and discovery tools
- Provides a robust vehicle for greater collaboration between researchers and librarians
- Enhances the role of medical librarians as educators and research partners – a valuable resource that many researchers have yet to tap into
- Allows Medical Librarians to take advantage of the new educational opportunities that will help them to fully participate in eScience initiatives
View the latest developments in eScience at Resources.
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C
with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.