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OCLC Research works with the community to collaboratively identify problems and opportunities, prototype and test solutions, and share findings through publications, presentations and professional interactions.

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Featured Activities

Classify

A FRBR-based prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of materials.

WorldCat Identities

Summary pages for each of the 20 million "identities" in WorldCat, which are predominantly authors and people who are the subjects of published titles.

Missing Materials Beta Procedure

Register missing materials within WorldCat and then broadcast to other collecting institutions, the bookseller community and law enforcement agencies.

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News

Michelle Alexopoulos to Present 4 February on Library Collections as Indicators of Economic Changes  

The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or remotely via WebEx; slides and audio will be available online afterward.
28 January 2010

New Report, "Research Assessment and the Role of the Library"

This report was written as a companion report to "A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process," a report commissioned by OCLC Research and produced by Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK library and scholarly publishing consultancy.
07 January 2010

New Report, "A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process"

This report examines the role of research libraries in research assessment regimes in five different countries and helps establish a new set of responsibilities that is emerging for research libraries.
17 December 2009

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Meet With Us

Undue Diligence: Balancing Rights and Risk to Increase Access to Unpublished Materials

OCLC Research staff and RLG partners will convene in San Mateo, California
11 March 2010

2010 RLG Partnership European Meeting, Moving the Past into the Future: Special Collections in a Digital Age

OCLC Research staff and RLG partners will convene at Oxford University
22–23 April 2010

2010 RLG Partnership Annual Meeting and Symposium

OCLC Research staff and RLG partners will convene in Chicago
9–11 June 2010

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Read Us

Catalyzing Collaboration: Seven New York City Libraries

by Günter Waibel and Dennis Massie
November 2009

Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto.

by Chris Bourg, Ross Coleman and Ricky Erway
November 2009