Maliaca G Oxnam

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Research

Data Science, Collaborative Networks, Government Documents, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Organizational Development and Leadership

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Colombo, P. M., Freylersythe, S., Sprinkle, M. M., Ernst, K. C., Yubeta, M., Barbati, J. L., Merchant, N., Iyengar, S., Crane, T. E., Oxnam, M., & Rains, S. A. (2022). Design and implementation of a health messaging protocol employed for use within a COVID-19 health dissemination platform. Frontiers in public health, 10, 942795.
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  AZCOVIDTXT, a bilingual, two-way information sharing platform was created in April of 2020 in response to rising COVID-19 cases in Arizona. The aim of this paper is to delineate the protocol and processes used to develop and disseminate health messaging to serve as guidance for other groups, universities, or public health programs in the implementation or enhancement of health communication services.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Lyons, E. H. (2020). Ten simple rules for organizing a data science workshop. PLOS Computational Biology.
• Ponsero, A., Bartelme, R., de Oliveira Almeida, G., Bigelow, A., Tuteja, R., Ellingson, H., Swetnam, T., Merchant, N., Oxnam, M., & Lyons, E. (2020). Ten simple rules for organizing a data science workshop. PLoS computational biology, 16(10), e1008226.
• Rains, S. A., Crane, T. E., Iyengar, S., Merchant, N., Oxnam, M., Sprinkle, M. M., & Ernst, K. C. (2020). Community-Level Health Promotion during a Pandemic: Key Considerations for Health Communication. Health communication, 35(14), 1747-1749.
• Erstad, B. L., Oxnam, M. G., Miller, T. P., & Draugalis, J. R. (2018). Issues and Opportunities on Implementing an Online Faculty Review System. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 82(3), 6911.
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  Intensifying accountability pressures have led to an increased attention to assessments of teaching, but teaching generally represents only a portion of faculty duties. Less attention has been paid to how evaluations of faculty members can be used to gather data on teaching, research, clinical work, and outreach to integrate clinical and academic contributions and fill in information gaps in strategic areas such as technology transfer and commercialization where universities are being pressed to do more. Online reporting systems can enable departments to gather comprehensive data on faculty activities that can be aggregated for accreditation assessments, program reviews, and strategic planning. As detailed in our case study of implementing such a system at a research university, online annual reviews can also be used to publicize faculty achievements, to document departmental achievements, foster interdisciplinary and community collaborations, recognize service contributions (and disparities), and provide a comprehensive baseline for salary and budgetary investments.
• Bryant, R., Clements, A., Feltes, C., Groenewegen, D., Hoggard, S., Mercer, H., Missingham, R., Oxnam, M., Rauh, A., & Wright, J. (2017). Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role. OCLC Research Reports. doi:10.25333/C3NK88
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  Research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about research and is emerging as an area of increasing interest and relevance in many university libraries. RIM intersects with many aspects of traditional library services in discovery, acquisition, dissemination, and analysis of scholarly activities, and does so through the nexus with institutional data systems, faculty workflows, and institutional partners. RIM adoption offers libraries new opportunities to support institutional and researcher goals.In this paper prepared by Rebecca Bryant, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer, and a working group of librarians representing OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions, learn more about what RIM is, what is driving RIM adoption, and the library’s role in RIM.The publication is intended to help libraries and other institutional stakeholders understand developing research information management practices—and particularly the value add that libraries can offer in a complex ecosystem.
• Bryant, R., Clements, A., Feltes, C., Groenewegen, D., Huggard, S., Mercer, H., Missingham, R., Oxnam, M., Rauh, A., & Wright, J. (2017). Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role. OCLC Research Position Paper. doi:10.25333/C3NK88
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  Research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about research and is emerging as an area of increasing interest and relevance in many university libraries. RIM intersects with many aspects of traditional library services in discovery, acquisition, dissemination, and analysis of scholarly activities, and does so through the nexus with institutional data systems, faculty workflows, and institutional partners. RIM adoption offers libraries new opportunities to support institutional and researcher goals. In this paper prepared by Rebecca Bryant, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer, and a working group of librarians representing OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions, learn more about what RIM is, what is driving RIM adoption, and the library’s role in RIM. The publication is intended to help libraries and other institutional stakeholders understand developing research information management practices—and particularly the value add that libraries can offer in a complex ecosystem.
• Oxnam, M. (2010). Collaboration and the Power of Partnership in Science--Engineering Libraries. Journal of Library Administration, 50(3), 253--263.
• Oxnam, M. (2010). multi-institutional approach to technical report literature: Development of the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL). The Grey Journal, 6(1), 5--7.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2010). A multi-institutional approach to technical report literature: Development of the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL). Grey Journal.
• Oxnam, M., Talamonti, L., & Mills, V. (2003). Around the World to the University of Arizona: one year of lessons learned in the new information commons.... Library Hi Tech News, 20(6).
• Coleman, A. S., & Oxnam, M. (2002). Interactional digital libraries: Introduction to a special issue on interactivity in digital libraries. Journal of Digital information (JODI).

Proceedings Publications

• Oxnam, M. G., & Chapman, K. A. (2015, March 25-28). Renewing Our Value: The Library’s Role with Online Faculty Evaluations. In Association of College and Research Libraries - ACRL 2015.
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  Proceedings Paper + Conference PresentationAbstract: Learn about online faculty evaluation tools being implemented at many academic institutions and how libraries can play a central role in supporting these tools and the faculty who use them! There are increasing trends to move traditional, paper-based annual review processes for faculty to online systems. Learn about UA Vitae, the online faculty evaluation tool at the University of Arizona and the numerous opportunities for libraries to demonstrate leadership and support to campus through business intelligence, information management, contract negotiations, training and many other forms of support!
• Scherer, D., Sarmiento, R., Oxnam, M., & Watkinson, C. (2013). Moving Technical Reports Forward. In Proceeding from the 32nd Annual Charleston Library Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. http://docs. lib. purdue. edu/charleston/2012/Communication/11.
• Scherer, D., Sariento, R., Oxnam, M. G., & Watkinson, C. (2012, November 7th-10th). Moving Technical Reports Forward: New Roles for Libraries & Librarians. In 32nd Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition.
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  DOI: 10.5703/1288284315133Presentation presented at conference.
• Oxnam, M. (2003). The informed engineer. In Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 33rd Annual, 2.
• Oxnam, M. (2003, Fall). The Informed Engineer. In Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 33rd Annual, 2, F1E--5.
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  This paper was the official conference paper. It was later awarded the 2004 Best Paper Award by the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. The purpose of this award is to honor the best new paper or non-reference monographic work in engineering information.Abstract: Future engineers need an education program that can provide them with the breadth of knowledge necessaryto be knowledgeable and productive contributors to both the workplace and to society. In short, engineers need information. Unfortunately, most technical science courses don't require assignments that involve information research. It is even more unfortunate, that due the heavy technical nature of their curriculum, students are often only exposed to these information retrieval skills a few times in their college career. The Association of College & Research Libraries and the American Association for Higher Education endorsed Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to describe essential skills that a student should possess to effectively identify the need for and utilize information. These standards correlate with several of the ABET evaluation criteria. This paper will both examine these relationships and explore the need for engineering students to master information competencies.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2003). Integrating writing into the optics curriculum. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.

Presentations

• Oliver, J. C., Oxnam, M. G., Subbian, V., & Miller, S. J. (2020, April). Building data science support capacity through graduate fellowship programs. Coalition for Networked Information Spring Membership Meeting. Virtual Meeting.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2019, January). Interfolio Case Study: Faculty Activity Reporting at the University of Arizona. Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE). Webinar: Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE) jointly with Interfolio.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Ten Eyck, B. (2019, Fall). Leading From the Middle: How to Get Stuff Done Without Being in Charge (Workshop). UA Inclusive Leadership Program. University of Arizona: UA Office for Diversity & Inclusive Excellence, Office of the Provost, Office of Leadership & Organizational Development.
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  How do you succeed in areas outside your recognized area of authority? Some people are content to—or believe they have to—operate strictly within their lanes of prescribed responsibility. Yet as inclusive leaders, we are often in situations that require assumed leadership on issues lacking clear responsibility or process ownership. This session will explore why, when, and how individuals can exercise leadership from wherever they fit into an organization chart, and how to recognize and employ both inclusion and diversity of thought in their leadership endeavors.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Ten Eyck, B. (2019, Spring). Leading From the Middle: How to Get Stuff Done Without Being in Charge (Workshop). Future Leaders Workshop Series, UA Inclusive Leadership Program. University of Arizona: UA Office for Diversity & Inclusive Excellence, Office of the Provost, Office of Leadership & Organizational Development.
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  How do you succeed in areas outside your recognized area of authority? Some people are content to—or believe they have to—operate strictly within their lanes of prescribed responsibility. Yet as inclusive leaders, we are often in situations that require assumed leadership on issues lacking clear responsibility or process ownership. This session will explore why, when, and how individuals can exercise leadership from wherever they fit into an organization chart, and how to recognize and employ both inclusion and diversity of thought in their leadership endeavors.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Ten Eyck, B. (2019, Summer). Leading From the Middle: How to Get Stuff Done Without Being in Charge (Workshop). UA Classified Staff Crossroads Conference 2019. University of Arizona: UA Classified Staff.
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  How do you succeed in areas outside your recognized area of authority? Some people are content to—or believe they have to—operate strictly within their lanes of prescribed responsibility. Yet as inclusive leaders, we are often in situations that require assumed leadership on issues lacking clear responsibility or process ownership. This session will explore why, when, and how individuals can exercise leadership from wherever they fit into an organization chart, and how to recognize and employ both inclusion and diversity of thought in their leadership endeavors.
• Oxnam, M. G., Bryant, R., Fransen, J., & Rauh, A. (2019, April). Research Information Management: Libraries Leading The Way. ACRL 2019. Cleveland, OH: Association of College & Research Libraries.
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  Librarians are assuming larger roles in managing research data and other aspects of research support, and our institutions are taking a much greater interest in the data about the research. Managing all that information involves aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata: all areas ideally suited to the skills librarians already have. In this panel discussion, practitioners in the emerging field of Research Information Management (RIM) will talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries are leading the way.
• Oxnam, M. G., Fransen, J., & Rauh, A. (2019, September). OCLC Works in Progress Webinar: Case Studies of Research Information Management at US Institutions. OCLC Works in Progress Webinar Series. Webinar: OCLC.
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  In this webinar, RIM practitioners from three research-intensive North American institutions will talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries were involved.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2018, December). Analyzing Faculty Activity Reporting at the University of Arizona: What Does the Data Tell Us?. CNI Membership Meeting, Fall 2018. Washington, DC: Coalition for Networked Information.
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  Five years after launching a new online faculty activity reporting and annual evaluation system at the University of Arizona, what does examination of the benchmark data tell us? Is the data captured in the system useful? The system uses faculty self-report of activity data, including scholarly contributions, combined with integrations of core campus data systems. How does the record of faculty scholarly achievements compare to other licensed tools and services? Is the self-report of faculty activities effective? The system captures information about our faculty not previously recorded. What has the system taught us? How can we creatively employ this data, coupled with existing data sources to create new analytical discovery tools? As we continue to assess and analyze data from the system, we’d like to share our experiences and findings to date.UA Vitae is a shared effort from the Office of the Provost, University Libraries, University Analytics and Information Research, Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation and University Information and Technology Services. This session will be useful for anybody interested in research information management, faculty activity reporting, profile and/or institutional reporting systems.
• Bryant, R., Mangiafico, P., & Oxnam, M. G. (2017, Spring). The Emergence of Research Information Management (RIM) within US libraries. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Spring 2017 Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
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  Advancing technologies, standards, and networked information offer new opportunities for institutions to steward and disseminate the scholarly outputs of its researchers. In this project briefing we will discuss how research information management (RIM) is emerging as a part of scholarly communications practice in many US university libraries, in close collaboration with other campus stakeholders. RIM intersects many aspects of traditional library services in discovery, acquisition dissemination and analysis of scholarly activities, but does so at the convergence of institutional data systems, faculty/research processes, and institutional partners. It also can serve as the basis for a growing shift in emphasis in research libraries--from focusing primarily on providing local access to research produced elsewhere, toward a greater focus on providing global access to research produced by the institution's community. The integration of open access repositories with RIM programs provides an opportunity to strengthen participation with and impact of both. The University of Arizona, with leadership from the University Libraries, has converted a decentralized, antiquated paper-based faculty activity review (FAR) process into a cloud-based system, integrating faculty inputs and aggregating information from multiple data systems creating a complete authoritative record of faculty activities and outputs to support institutional analysis and expert discovery services. Duke University libraries support a faculty-initiated open access policy by simplifying processes for self-archiving and aggregating research outputs into public profiles to support both individual researchers’ incentives and institutional needs. This presentation will also outline a growing program of research on emerging library support for RIM, led by OCLC Research in collaboration with OCLC Research Library Partnership member institutions.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2017, February). Copyright and Government Documents. TRAIL Tech Talk Series. Participatory Webinar: Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL).
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  This baseline discussion is intended to give newcomers an introduction to the complexities of copyright as it applies to government works. Discussions will lean heavily on the copyright guides produced by CENDI. CENDI is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 12 US federal agencies.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2017, October). Implementing RIM (Research Information Management): Working Smarter in Higher Ed with Research Information Management. OCLC Americas Regional Conference 2017 (ARC17). Baltimore, MD: OCLC.
• Oxnam, M. G., Bendickson, B., & Rosen, A. (2017, Summer). Faculty Information Management: The University of Arizona and Interfolio. 2017 AIR Forum. Washington, DC: Association for Institutional Research.
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  This panel presents a case study examining the University of Arizona’s use of Interfolio’s faculty activity reporting system to collect, analyze, and integrate faculty data into multiple campus research and reporting systems. University of Arizona will share how they use technology to harness up-to-date, validated data on the full range of faculty engagement (teaching, research, patents, service, community partnerships and more), and then access APIs to create an institutional data commons for multiple stakeholders across campus, including institutional research. The session will touch on best practices for selection, implementation, rollout, and technical integration of a faculty activity reporting platform.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2016, November). TRAIL Content in Discovery Layers. TRAIL Tech Talk Series. Participatory Webinar: Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL).
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  This baseline discussion was intended to give participants a baseline understanding of Discovery Systems, how content is added, and how librarians may or may not want to push for inclusion of content from the Techncal Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) in their local discovery system implementations.
• Oxnam, M. G. (2016, Spring). Graph Database + Faculty Profiles = User-Driven Business Intelligence. CNI Spring 2016 Meeting. San Antonio, TX: Coalition for Networked Information.
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  After implementing a mandatory, campus-wide activity reporting and annual performance review system, the University of Arizona began experimenting with graph database technologies to maximize the utility of data held in the campus data systems combined with the self-reported activities and tagging in UA Vitae, the faculty activity reporting and evaluation system. While the first phase output is a much-improved campus directory and faculty profile system, the powerful data relationships forged through graph database structures provide a glimpse at the powerful potential for real-time, user-driven business intelligence. This project is a collaboration between the University Libraries, University Information Technology and the Provost's Office.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Bryant, R. (2016, December). Emerging Services for Research Information Management (RIM) through Enterprise Collaboration. Case Study: University of Arizona. OCLC User Forum. Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US: OCLC Research Library Partnership.
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  Invited presentation at OCLC User forum, highlighting work of the Research Library Partnership Program. As part of introducing the broader Researcher Information Management research program at OCLC, I was asked to share the work being performed at the Unversity of Arizona on UA Vitae and UA Profiles.
• Oxnam, M. G., & Phillips, M. (2016, August). Persistent Identifiers. TRAIL Tech Talk Series. Participatory Webinar: Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL).
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  This baseline discussion is intended to give newcomers an introduction to different types of persistent identifiers and how they work as it applies to the Technical Report Archive & Image Library.
• Oxnam, M. G., Frumkin, J. A., & Chapman, K. A. (2015, Spring). Stewarding the Scholarly Record at the University of Arizona. Spring 2015 CNI Membership Meeting. Seattle, WA.: Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
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  Abstract:The University of Arizona Libraries has an evolving strategy to steward the scholarly record of the institution. As a key component of this strategy the Libraries have a leadership role in implementing UA Vitae, a mandated online faculty activity reporting system with initial focus on supporting the faculty evaluation process. In partnership with the Office of the Provost and Campus Computing, the Libraries contribute expertise in support of this campus initiative. Leveraging the data from this effort to capture a more holistic view of the scholarly record provides opportunities for the Libraries to partner on approaches to utilizing, stewarding, and exposing the scholarly record. This presentation will describe the University and the Library’s evolving strategies in regard to defining and stewarding the scholarly record, our experiences with the build-out of the faculty activity reporting system, and next steps in bringing together information and systems that are transforming our University.

Poster Presentations

• Chapman, K. A., & Oxnam, M. G. (2015, June 8-11). The Road Forward: Faculty Reporting System, Institutional Repository, and Research Portal Integration at the University of Arizona. OR2015: 10th International Conference on Open Repositories. Indianapolis, IN.
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  Abstract: How has the launch of “UA Vitae”, an online reporting system supporting the faculty annual review process at the University of Arizona, impacted the institutional repository? Explore the relationship between the “UA Vitae” system and the UA Campus Repository; learn about the current reality and the potential that is just around the corner! In addition, learn how the UA Campus Repository data is integrated into the brand-new Research Arizona Portal that shares and showcases faculty research from Arizona universities. Workflow processes have potholes,but we’re driving forward to collaborate and promote the University’s research output. This poster shows what is “under the hood” in terms of desired and actual workflows. In addition,we’ll discuss faculty participation in making content available across systems. We’ll describe the similarities and differences between system objectives, and discuss how we’ve approachedcommon goals. This presentation will focus on the business relationships in place to make collaboration work, in addition to highlighting both bumps-in-the-road and destinations reached!
• Chapman, K., & Oxnam, M. (2011, Spring). Revolutionary Repository Services. Association of College & Research Libraries Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

Others

• Oxnam, M. G. (2013, March). Data revival: Old data becoming new. LibraryConnect Newsletter: Research Data Management. http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/technology-content/2013-03/data-revival-old-data-becoming-new