Open science in libraries: re-interpreting the competencies of librarians

Abstract

The rise and spread of networked communication had a significant impact on scholarly communication as well. Visibility is an essential element of scholarly work. It has also become a key issue in funders’ requirements in the past decade. In most cases, funders require that the research results financed by them should be demonstrated in an open and transparent manner. Such requirements are met usually not only by implementing visibility but also by providing open access to research results. Libraries’ activities in research data management can be conceptualized as falling into four broad categories: publication services, managing open-access repositories, managing data licensing and intellectual property issues, and research metrics. Today’s librarians are required to learn skills and abilities to find, extract, collect, clean, organize, analyze and present data.