Organisation of Research Services department, TU Delft Library
The Research Services department of the Library has recently expanded to four teams, and is appointing some new heads. I have added short descriptions of core tasks for each team
Yan Wang has been appointed Head of Research Data and Software. This team has responsibility for
- Data Stewardship
- Research Data and Software training
- TU Delft policies for Research Data, and for Research Software
- Digital Competence Centre (from library perspective)
- Tooling such as DMP Online and Electronic Lab Notebooks (from library perspective)
Madeleine de Smaele is the Interim Director of 4TU.ResearchData. (We are currently in the recruitment process for a full-time Director) This team has responsibility for the
We are currently interviewing for a Coordinator of Research Infrastructure. The responsibilities of this team include
- Maintaining the current institutional repository
- Building a new institutional repository
- Overseeing the CRIS system (currently Pure, with a public facing portal)
- Understanding new research infrastructure requirements as part of the TU Delft Digital Strategy (eg for Artificial Intelligence, Convergence context)
We will shortly be recruiting for a Head of Scholarly Communications and Publication. The responsibilities of this team include
- Managing the library collection (licences and subscriptions with publishers)
- Running the publishing house TU Delft Open Publishing
- Providing expert analysis and advice on research trends and information
- Provide expert advice and policy development on Open Access
Open Working 