Translating Expertise

Marisa Conte is the Research and Data Informationist at the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library. In this role she partners with researchers and administration to integrate library resources, services and expertise into the research enterprise. She’s worked with UM’s clinical and translational research community since 2007. Marisa is a graduate of Wayne State University and a proud alumna of the National Library of Medicine’s Associate Fellowship Program. Her research interests include biomedical informatics, data management, team science, research ethics and research policy.

I have worked at a Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) institution for over 5 years and I am very glad to have a resource such as this. While there are other resources that collectively could provide some of the same type of information, what I found to be the most useful is the compilation that allowed me to explore the many facets of the clinical translational science world through the lens of accomplished librarians who are leading the way in this field. Real-world examples that relate to many of the CTSA Key Function Groups are carefully detailed offering unique perspectives on many complex problems. This work has helped me to personally clarify the things that our library is already doing to support our institutional CTSA and more importantly identify the next steps that we can reasonably take to expand on what we already do well and to look outside of our institution for the additional opportunities that exist for collaboration. I plan to share it with my department as we plan for future service and program development

• Preface by Marisa L. Conte, University of MichiganIntroductionChapter 1: Libraries supporting the translational science spectrum: An introduction. By Kristi L. Holmes, Northwestern University.Basic and clinical scienceChapter 2: Bioinformatics projects with the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute: Building success step by step. By Pamela L. Shaw, Northwestern UniversityChapter 3: Librarian involvement in tranSMART: a translational biomedical research platform. By Marci D. Brandenburg, University of Michigan.Chapter 4: Librarian integration in a working group of the REDCap International Consortium. By Jennifer A. Lyon, Stony Brook University; Fatima M. Mncube-Barnes, Meharry Medical College; Brenda L. Minor, Vanderbilt UniversityEducation and community engagementChapter 5: Tailoring support for a community fellows research program. By William Olmstadt, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport; Mychal A. Vorhees; Robert J. Engeszer, Washington University School of Medicine. Chapter 6: Partners in Research: connecting with the community. By Kate Sayor; Molly White, University of Michigan; Celeste Choate, Ann Arbor District Library; Dorene Markel, University of MichiganChapter 7: Developing an educational role in a clinical and translational science institute. By Diana Nelson Louden, University of WashingtonNetworks and connectionChapter 8: Expanding research networks. By Judith E. Smith; Leena N. Lalwani, University of MichiganChapter 9: Librarians’ roles in translating research expertise through VIVO. By Valrie I. Minson; Michele R. Tennant; Hannah F. Norton, University of FloridaChapter 10: Connecting researchers: an intersection of game development and clinical research personnel. By Christina N. Kalinger; Jean P. Shipman; Roger A. Altizer, University of UtahInfrastructureChapter 11: Librarians partner with translational scientists: Life after My Research Assistant (MyRA). By Jean P. Shipman, University of UtahChapter 12: The role of the Library in Public Access Policy compliance. By Emily S. Mazure; Patricia L. Thibodeau, Duke UniversityChapter 13: Taking flight to disseminate translational research: a partnership between the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science and the Library’s Institutional Repository. By Lisa A. Palmer, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Sally A. Gore, University of MassachusettsEvaluationChapter 14: Capitalizing on serendipity: Parlaying a citation report into a publishing and evaluation support program. By Cathy C. Sarli, Washington University School of Medicine; Kristi L. Holmes, Northwestern University; Amy M. Suiter, Northwestern UniversityChapter 15: Research impact assessment. By Karen E. Gutzman, Northwestern UniversityChapter 16: Web design, evaluation and bibliometrics, oh my! From local CTSA work to national involvement. By Elizabeth C. Whipple, Indiana UniversityChapter 17: Assessing impact through publications: metrics that tell a story. By Alisa Surkis, New York University