Libraries Maximizing UK Research Impact With SHARE

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 10, 2015) — University of Kentucky Libraries is providing bibliographic data about UK researchers' scholarly outputs to SHARE Notify, an online portal that aims to maximize research impact and enhance public access to academic studies. 

The SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) initiative was jointly launched by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries to make academic research more findable, accessible and reusable. The pursuit of this goal includes the creation of a growing open dataset about scholarly and research activities at higher education institutions nationwide. 

UK's institutional repository, UKnowledge, holds bibliographic data about and provides seamless access to the research outputs from the UK community. As a SHARE provider, UK Libraries transmits data to SHARE on a daily basis. The data is subsequently made openly available via SHARE Notify to raise the visibility of what UK researchers have accomplished. Anyone around the world can access the research outputs via UKnowledge with just a few clicks. 

"SHARE is beneficial to all stakeholders in the research lifecycle and signifies a recognition of researchers’ scholarly and societal contributions," said Mary Beth Thomson, senior associate dean of UK Libraries. "It empowers people to build on academic studies for innovation and the public good. UK Libraries is proud to be a SHARE provider." 

SHARE’s online service functionality is currently being developed by the initiative’s technical partner, the Center for Open Science. In the long run, SHARE will play an active role in facilitating the discovery, tracking, retrieval and reuse of the research outputs of higher education institutions. More information about SHARE is available from its knowledge base. 

UK faculty who would like to make their research outputs available via UKnowledge or have questions about UK Libraries’ scholarly publishing services can contact Adrian Ho, director of digital scholarship, for information and assistance at adrian.ho@uky.edu. 

As the premier research library in the Commonwealth, UK Libraries provides ever-expanding access to quality information resources, services and programs. UK Libraries locations include the William T. Young Library, the Agricultural Information Center, the Hunter M. Adams College of Design Library, the Education Library, the John A. Morris Library (Gluck Equine Research Center), the Kentucky Transportation Center Library, the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center, the Medical Center Library, the Science Library, the Shaver Engineering Library and the Special Collections Research Center.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu