A partnership formed between the Vice President for Research and the Deputy
Director at EHSL in 2015 sprung from mutual interest on ways to get in
front of the reproducibility crisis. EHSL librarians began to support
research reproducibility at this time. From that working relationship came
the first Research Reproducibility conference at the University of Utah
Eccles Health Science Library (EHSL) in November 2016. Due to the success
of the 2016 conference, the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
made research reproducibility a major theme of the renewal grant. Now, we
are planning for a second conference in 2018 with the theme “Building
Research Integrity Through Reproducibility” and a week-long research
reproducibility course. The conference and course are part of our
year-long programming around research reproducibility. EHSL started the
2017/2018 school year with a weekly Grand Rounds: Research Reproducibility
(GRRR) sessions on various topics about research reproducibility in
different disciplines, plus a quarterly Research Reproducibility Coalition
meeting, to allow faculty and staff at the University to come together
around reproducible research as we work to #MakeResearchTrue across campus.
GRRR allows institutional champions of research reproducibility to become a
larger voice in the community. We are providing space and time to educate
and discuss a myriad of issues from institutional questions to journal
policies, to individual researchers. The goal for this panel is to
highlight the importance of working with and supporting your institutional
champions, and giving them the platform to disseminate the importance of
making research true.