For libraries and other research institutions who want to invest money and staff in collaboratively designing their future services, the OCLC Research Library Partnership is a global alliance of like-minded institutions that focuses on making operational processes more efficient and shaping new scholarly services by directly engaging senior managers. The OCLC Research Library Partnership is supported by the full capacities of OCLC Research, informed by an international, system-wide perspective and connected to the broad array of OCLC products and services.
Activities supported by the OCLC Research Library Partnership
OCLC Research is developing a new, freely available discovery system for ArchiveGrid to replace the current subscription service by June 2012.
This project focuses on enhancing the effective management of born-digital materials as they intersect with special collections and archives practices in research libraries.
This goal of this project is to help libraries find new ways to support their institutions' research mission.
This work has modeled requirements for increased institutional reliance on shared print and digital repositories, based on a case study of a single consumer institution and two representative print and digital suppliers. It offers recommendations for broader adoption of interdependent collection management regimes in the cloud.
A metadata publishing tool that transfers information between databases and different formats.
This work seeks to establish best practice for the disposition of print journals available in electronic form – i.e. when it is most appropriate to retain print back files on campus, when to store offsite, and when to deaccession entirely.
This work aims to characterize the generic business requirements for managing physical research library collections as a shared network resource.
Allows museums to disclose descriptions of collection items as well as pointers to digital surrogates.
An investigation into ways that libraries can support researchers' data needs and institutional needs for dataset curation.
OCLC Research will undertake a small scale experiment to explore the effectiveness of tools and techniques for bringing offline archival descriptions to the open Web.
SHARES is a membership-wide program of expedited, cost-saving interlibrary lending that also develops innovative new methods to improve collections sharing.
Identify the user contributions that would enrich the descriptive metadata created by libraries, archives, and museums and the issues that need to be resolved to communicate and share user contributions on the network level.
Streamlining procedures for successful delivery of rare and unique materials to users will maximize use of increasingly limited staff and financial resources.
A collaborative project of OCLC Research and the UK's Research Information Network (RIN) to examine the use and provision of information-related tools and services to researchers throughout the lifecycle of the research process.
OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) will survey library special collections holdings and practices of RLUK members & OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions in the UK and Ireland.
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