In these times where news and facts are challenged and the discussion of knowledge resistance is highlighted, there is an increased need for strengthening the information literacy competencies among students as well as the public in general. At the same time, universities and their researchers have a need for making their research tangible and for communicating it to the surrounding community. In this project, we meet these demands by presenting research in the form of exhibitions in the most accessible place of the University – the library. University libraries in Sweden are used daily by researchers and students as well as the public and they are a possible link in the dissemination of knowledge to society. The foundation of the project is to bridge the boundary between the work of libraries in the area of formal scholarly communication and the activities of research or science communication, i.e. communication not targeting the academic society, but being part of public involvement. The aim is to create enhanced opportunities for research communication in the library space and to bring together the two strands of information literacy work and dissemination of research results performed by librarians. The library is a place for creation and use of academic knowledge as well as an informal learning environment. The focus is this physical setting and the library as a credible place where communication of research in an exhibition is developed in close collaboration between librarians and researchers and in a format that is interactive, attractive and accessible. The idea is to develop the visitors’ (students, researchers, staff, students from other universities and residents in the city etc.) information literacy and foster a critical stance to news and presentations of research findings. The exhibitions are created to encourage continued learning, for example by connecting the theme of the exhibited research to the library collections for further reading. The key to success is the teamwork that is developed with the researchers and the librarians. The collaboration is not only part of creating the exhibitions, but gives unique opportunities and has explicit synergies in terms of furthering other collaborations among the researchers themselves as well as with the library as a whole, facilitating collection development and fostering the librarians’ knowledge of current research at the university. One concrete result of the project is a model for designing sustainable exhibitions in which the possibilities of a new role for the librarian as a curator-librarian and the library as the credible place is explored. A web-based, five-step model is made available for other libraries - of any size and type - that wish to communicate science and research to their users. The five steps include: idea formation, planning, production, exhibition period, closing. Each step includes a description of the stage in the process, a specific checklist, the reflections on insights from the project and further reading. 

Det har skrivits mycket litteratur de senaste åren, dels om forskningsdata generellt och dels om hur stödet kring forskningsdatahanteringen byggs upp, inte minst på universitetsbiblioteken. Utmaningarna är många, från de juridiska frågeställningarna till den faktiska hanteringen av olika typer av data. Vilka specialistkompetenser som är centrala för en framgångsrik verksamhet och hur dessa roller samordnas inom universitet är något som Edinburghs universitetsbibliotek arbetar med. Bland annat har universitetet en policy för forskningsdata sedan 2011 och vi var nyfikna på hur de arbetar med att stödja sina forskare med forskningsdatahantering. På Malmö högskolas bibliotek pågår under 2016 ett projekt för tillgängliggörande av forskningsdata. En studieresa till Edinburgh hösten 2016 kunde genomföras med ett resestipendium från Svensk biblioteksförening.

The quest for open research data is the driving force behind the development of the whole area of research data management practices. We, as a university library, offer and develop support to researchers and doctoral students. Based on the result of a web survey submitted to all researchers at Malmö University, and the knowledge that doctoral students are on their way of forming their individual research practices, we have made doctoral students our first target group for specific seminars and workshops promoting conscious research data management practices. We will organise these seminars and workshops, which both take into account the general aspects of research data management and the discipline specific practices, so as to develop integrated research data management support in close relation to doctoral students’ research practices.

Malmö högskolas bibliotek har under flera år gradvis arbetat alltmer med forskningsdatafrågor. Efter en intern fortutbildning inom ansvarigt team på biblioteket har arbetet fördjupats i projektform. En enkät till högskolans forskare gav en nulägesbild, erfarenheter av och syn på forskningsdatafrågor med fokus på öppet tillgängliggörande, samt kunskap om i vilka frågor mer stöd och kunskap behövdes. Biblioteket deltar också i Svensk Nationell Datatjänsts (SND) pilotprojekt. Deltagandet har inneburit kompetensutveckling på flera sätt, genom undervisning, diskussioner och i möten med forskare. Nästa steg är att ta fram förslag på hur biblioteket kan organisera det fortsatta arbetet med stöd till forskningsdatahantering.

Syftet med detta rundabordssamtal är att utbyta erfarenheter och diskutera hur olika stöd till doktoranders lärande samverkar under forskarutbildningens gång. Vilka pedagogiska utmaningar finns i att möta doktoranderna som individer i sitt avhandlingsprojekt men också i den större kontexten bestående av forskningsmiljön, disciplinen och doktorandkollektivet?