Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy
20 August 2019
Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas, Mark Sandler
The proposed framework recommends strategies for advancing the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s (BTAA) collective collections toward a more purposeful coordination of their print collections. It defines four traits of a purposeful collective collection that can also apply broadly to other consortium settings.
University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions
18 October 2018
Constance Malpas, Roger Schonfeld, Rona Stein, Lorcan Dempsey, Deanna Marcum
This report proposes a new library services framework for academic libraries in place of a collections model. This report studies the relationship between emerging library service paradigms and different university settings and surveys the importance of library service areas according to library directors.
The Realities of Research Data Management Part Four: Sourcing and Scaling University RDM Services
26 April 2018
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
This report series explores how research universities are managing research data throughout the research lifecycle. This fourth report in this series examines the sourcing and scaling choices made by four research universities in their acquisition of research data management (RDM) capacity.
The Realities of Research Data Management Part Three: Incentives for Building University RDM Services
4 January 2018
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
The Realities of Research Data Management series explores the research data management (RDM) capacity acquisition incentives motivating research universities. The third report creates four categories of RDM capacity incentives: compliance, evolving scholarly norms, institutional strategy, and researcher demand.
Convenience and Compliance: Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management
7 December 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, Constance Malpas
The Realities of Research Data Management Part Two: Scoping the University RDM Service Bundle
28 September 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: A Synthesis of the Harvard Library’s Hazen Memorial Symposium
2 August 2017
Constance Malpas, Merrilee Proffitt
The Realities of Research Data Management: A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space
30 March 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
Strength in Numbers: The Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Collective Collection
2 June 2016
Constance Malpas, Brian Lavoie
Collection Directions: The Evolution of Library Collections and Collecting
8 July 2014