The 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication survey was the brainchild of Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman of Utrecht University Library. Their interest in the many new tools available to researchers caused them to create a survey based on the research life cycle. Their site has the [results][1] of their worldwide survey, as well as a [list of tools][2] that anyone can add to. The survey breaks the research cycle into 6 sections, with questions about the use of particular research tools tied to each section. Below are the sections and examples of the tools asked about. - Discovery - Google, PubMed, arXiv - Analysis - Excel, Stata, R Writing - MS Word, Zotero, LaTex - Publication - subscription journal, OA journal - Outreach - Vimeo, figshare, ResearchGate - Assessment - Rubriq, h index **Conclusion** This survey was designed to ascertain what research tools are being used by JHU researchers. The small response means that this information can only roughly indicate what faculty, staff, and students in the Homewood schools are using. There are a few ‘take home’ points: - Word, Acrobat Reader, and Excel are still heavily used. - Adoption of newer tools is happening; liaisons need to be aware of this. - Google’s tools are important to researchers and we need to be sure we include Google in our teaching and resource development. - Researchers want to do outreach; they are primarily interested in a researcher profile. The libraries need to determine how to support these platforms. - There were few differences between JHU researchers and the global results. More students responded here; that was probably due to the type of outreach done. - The questions about support of Open Access or Open Science don’t indicate much.The majority of respondents said they support both movements, but there’s no way to know how they will show that support. [1]: http://dashboard101innovations.silk.co/ [2]: http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list