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 Open Content Update: Where We Are, and Where We’re Going (video)
In this video, OCLC's Chip Nilges and OCLC Research Library Partnership Executive Director Rachel Frick provide an update on OCLC's work on open content strategy.
Topics: Open Access
The Costs of “Open”: Preliminary Results from a Global Survey
Manchester (UK)
OCLC conducted a worldwide survey in 2018 that focused on libraries’ ambitions, realities, and investments in support of open content. Here we examine definitions of “open” and share preliminary findings from more than 700 responses on library investments, assessments, and planning.
Topics: Open Access