Beyond Tenure and Promotion: How Academic Libraries Help Take Faculty Scholarship to the Next Level

The Faculty Services and Online Engagement Department at UTA Libraries is taking great strides to go beyond the usual metrics for tenure and promotion of its faculty. Through innovative programs educating faculty on what an IR is and how it works, to one on one consultation services about boosting a faculty members digital impact. UTA Libraries Scholarly Impact Librarians are thinking beyond the promotion process, and reaching out to all levels of faculty to help them with their scholarly journey, and tell their research story. To do this, librarians are going beyond the numbers, and thinking outside the box to boost the usual citation counts and traditional metrics, by introducing new services and trends in scholarly communication that enlighten faculty about how their research can reach a broader audience. Librarians are reaching out to faculty on a more personal level, letting faculty know just what the library can do for them and their research. By presenting a self-service model, or a complete one on one service model, librarians at UTA are helping faculty understand the steps to boosting their scholarly profile and creating a digital identity. In turn, this new approach has increased buy-in to our Institutional Repository, Research Commons, by threefold