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Assistant Director of Research & Translational Sciences
Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
As the Assistant Director of Research and Translational Sciences, Ms. Whipple’s primary goals are to develop policies, services, and infrastructure to support research, data, and translational sciences initiatives within the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. As lead of the Research Team, she works with the team to provide research services including research metrics, scholarly profiles, electronic lab notebook support, data management plan implementation, and open access publishing alternatives. She is the campus expert on compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Her research interests have focused in two areas: 1) bibliometric use in the biomedical, health informatics, and translational sciences, and 2) bibliometrics to show publication trends, such as changes in gender and regional representation over time.