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The Sage Handbook of Research Management
Described as a vital tool for the newly promoted research leader, SAGE has released The Handbook of Research Management, a resource to guide researchers making the transition from individual scholars to managers and leaders.
As larger-scale projects are becoming more common, researchers are faced with a new challenge to act as managers and leaders. In this role they are responsible for the careers and professional development of others in their teams and for managing interactions with university administrations and external stakeholders.
In the face of these new challenges Mary Byrne McDonnell, executive director of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York, and Robert Dingwall, a consulting sociologist and part-time professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, have created this reference as a standard guide for new research leaders.
The publishers say the handbook will be an essential tool for those – in any discipline or country – who are looking for a concise and effective guide in addressing their new role.
‘Research management is vital in our
modern day universities to account for expectations of funding. It is also an essential way to ensure that research is a collaborative enterprise, drawing on the different strengths of researchers who come from a variety of different backgrounds,’ the editors commented. ‘Although many scientific and technological disciplines have long been organised in this way, few resources have been created to help new leaders understand their roles and responsibilities, and to reflect on their practice.’
www.sagepublications.com
PharmaPendium
Elsevier has announced the launch of a new module in PharmaPendium, its database of drug approval documents and extracted data to inform critical drug development decisions. The PharmaPendium Efficacy Module features more than 1.4 million extracted efficacy observations from FDA and EMA drug approval packages, providing insights to researchers to support clinical development decisions and clinical trial design. Failure rates for Phase I and Phase II clinical trials range from 35 to 57 per cent; a lack of efficacy is one of the most common reasons for continued late-stage trial failures, followed by a lack of drug safety. The data in the PharmaPendium Efficacy Module helps researchers to improve translational research (from animal to human) which enables researchers to predict human outcomes with greater confidence, resulting in more informed clinical trial study designs.
‘Getting a single drug to market can cost
a billion dollars and takes up to 15 years – a large part of this cost can be attributed to drugs that fail,’ said Jaqui Hodgkinson, VP product development life sciences, R&D Solutions, Elsevier.
‘Improving translational research and increasing the success of clinical trials will not only help to reduce the costs of clinical development, but also improve the overall efficiency of research. Comparative efficacy data that includes both preclinical and clinical observations is hard to find; with this new PharmaPendium module, data across entire drug and target classes is now more accessible to researchers.’
www.elsevier.com
Figshare data management
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic researchers, has announced the next generation of its data management platform targeted at academic researchers – ranging from individuals to teams in all- sized organisations – as well as funders and publishers. Figshare says it is introducing significant new capabilities designed to meet the challenges in collecting and sharing data. The company says the enhancements include key new capabilities in the areas of control, discoverability and usability: l Control: the enhancements allow control over private or commercially sensitive data including clinical trial data, while at the same time promoting best practices and rewarding openness.
l Discoverability: the new discoverability enhancements save researchers’ time by making it easier to collect and find
32 Research Information DECEMBER 2015/JANUARY 2016 content most relevant to them.
l Usability: the new usability functionality builds on an already intuitive interface, including enhanced features and capabilities that increase the robustness and ease in making data available, while showcasing the research and authors who created the data. Mark Hahnel, Figshare CEO, said: ‘Researchers from all areas tell us they see the amount of data growing exponentially year-on-year and are faced with the challenge of storing, managing, disseminating and reproducing the large and diverse data sets being generated in today’s ever- more collaborative world.’
‘Our goal is to provide tools that enable control and reuse, while recognising that some data contains personal, ethical or commercially sensitive information that cannot be made available to the general public.’
www.figshare.com
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