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:

Presentations

Factors Influencing Research Data Management

Factors Influencing Research Data Management

By Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Workshop presented at the Universita di Teramo
Teramo (Italy)

Lynn Silipigni Connaway outlines research done through interviews and focus groups to understand what libraries are doing in the area of research data management (RDM) and the factors that influence their role in RDM.

Topics: Research Data Management

The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda

The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda

By Chela Scott Weber

SAA Archives Records 2018 Conference
Washington, DC (USA)

OCLC Research has a long history of work in the area of archives, special, and distinctive collections in research libraries. Weber discusses the many areas of investigation we are doing in these areas and next steps for the work.

Topics: Archives and Special Collections

Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices

Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices

By Rebecca Bryant, Pablo de Castro, Anna Clements, and Michele Mennielli

CRIS2018: 14th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems
Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden)

Bryant reviews findings from an OCLC Research and euroCRIS joint survey that gathered information from libraries around the world on their research information management/CRIS practices.

Topics: Research Information Management

The Changing Nature of Collections in a Network Environment

The Changing Nature of Collections in a Network Environment

By Lorcan Dempsey

TRY Library Staff Conference
Toronto (Canada)

Dempsey explores concepts of the changing nature of collections. While collections remain central to research library services and mission, the concept of the collection has in fact changed, to the extent that boundaries between collections and other service areas are blurring.

Topics: Collection Management, Library Trends

Preliminary Findings from the Global Survey on Research Information Management Practices

Preliminary Findings from the Global Survey on Research Information Management Practices

By Rebecca Bryant, Pablo de Castro, and Anna Clements

24th Annual EARMA Conference 2018
Brussels (Belgium)

Bryant and fellow researchers provide an introduction of OCLC Research, euroCRIS, and their collaboration on the joint Survey of Research Information Management Practice, including and preliminary survey results and findings.

Topics: Research Information Management

The Realities of Research Data Management

The Realities of Research Data Management

By Annette Dortmund, Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas

CODATA RDM Symposium 2018
Göttingen (Germany)

In recent years, research data management (RDM) has assumed an increasingly prominent place in scholarly communication, funder requirements, codes of academic practice, university research strategy, and even national policy. Learn about OCLC's research in RDM and the role of libraries in this work.

Topics: Research Data Management