Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
Presentations
OCLC–euroCRIS Strategic Partnership: Survey on Research Information Management Practices
Bratislava (Slovakia)
The presentation introduces OCLC Research's exploration of the roles research libraries play in research information management through a survey conducted in conjunction with euroCRIS.
Topics: Research Information Management
Libraries and the University Research Enterprise: An International Perspective
Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
This presentation is an outcome of collaborative research by librarians practicing on three continents through the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and is part of a growing body of research information management research to support libraries, researchers, and institutions.
Topics: Research Information Management
Making Sense of the Confusing World of Research Information Management
Virtual
Bryant introduces research information management (RIM), the library's evolving role in RIM, and what's driving RIM activities at institutions.
Topics: Research Information Management