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:
Moving libraries to the center of research support
Working with libraries to explore new modes of support for research processes, such as tracking and registering researcher identifiers and profiles, engaging with data curation and carrying out research assessment exercises.
Extending the reach and impact of special collections
Assisting libraries to address the challenges of managing the digitization, born digital curation, discoverability and accessibility of distinctive, unique or rare materials in order to maximize value for researchers.
Recent work:
Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections. (OCLC Research Report)
Archives and Special Collections Linked Data: Navigating between Notes and Nodes
Stewarding Audiovisual Materials
Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving - Recommendations, Literature and Harvesting Tools Review
Making Archives and Special Collections More Accessible
Adapting to the evolving scholarly record
Helping libraries transition their capacities to support the collection, curation and long-term accessibility of emerging scholarly outputs in a digital, networked environment.