Toward a New Understanding of American Higher Education Institutions: Focus of Educational Offer, Mode of Provision
19 January 2018
Rona Stein, PhD, Constance Malpas
This literature review preview of Toward a New Understanding of American Higher Education Institutions: Focus of Educational Offer, Mode of Provision provides context for the US higher education institution typology that OCLC has developed to support the University Futures, Library Futures project.
Librarians' Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs
9 January 2018
Ixchel Faniel, Lynn Silipigni Connaway
This study contextualizes librarians’ roles in campus research data management (RDM) programs at US academic libraries through their RDM experiences supporting research needs. Interviews with academic librarians surfaced five factors of influence that facilitate or constrain academic library RDM activity.
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.