Rate My Professor Lisa Chisholm

Lisa Chisholm is the Manager of the Research Services Unit (RSU) at the University of Otago Library. She brings over 20 years of experience in academic and corporate libraries, gained in New Zealand and overseas. Prior to her current position, she worked as a Subject Librarian supporting a range of social science programs, including Sociology and Gender Studies, Social Work, Social Anthropology, Archaeology, the School of Geography, and the Centre for Sustainability. Under her leadership, the RSU provides specialized services to researchers, including bibliometrics analysis using tools such as SciVal and Incites, collection development for the institutional repository OUR Archive, management of OUR Journals, research data management support, and digital scholarship initiatives. The unit offers training and advisory sessions on data management plans, open access publishing, enhancing research impacts, and improving online researcher profiles through resources like the Enhance Your Online Presence Checklist.

Chisholm's professional interests include open scholarship, bibliometrics, research impact, research data management, open access, digital humanities, and information literacy. She played a pivotal role in the project to implement a new institutional repository system, OUR Archive powered by Esploro, which was launched on 1 May 2024 following migration of approximately 15,000 existing outputs. This initiative achieved a 191% increase in repository content within one year, driven by features like Smart Expansion and Smart Harvesting. She co-presented on this project at eResearch Australasia, titled 'Advancing the research landscape: a new institutional repository for the University of Otago.' Additional RSU projects under her management encompass bulk uploads to OUR Archive utilizing ROD metadata, CONZUL code, and Scopus API; research impact case studies for the Division of Health Sciences; digitization of sensitive data for Biochemistry researchers; a Digital Humanities needs assessment; and advising on humanities database projects such as the Performing Arts Research Archive and a Māori/Moriori musical instruments database. Chisholm serves as Co-Chair of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) Special Interest Group on Metrics and Research Impact (SIG MaRI) and is a member of the University of Otago eResearch Advisory Group. She contributed to the Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers, with her team nominated for the 2024 CAUL Outstanding Library Team Award.