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
Practices and Patterns: The Convergence of Repository and CRIS Functions
Hamburg, Germany
The report Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey, shines a light onto the ever increasing coupling of its workflows to those traditionally associated with research information management (RIM, or CRIS) systems. Learn more about the findings of the survey conducted as part of this research.
Topics: Research Information Management
Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
St. Louis, MO (USA)
This presentation shares findings from the report Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey, which provides a comprehensive view of international RIM practices and offers insights to coming trends.
Topics: Research Information Management
OCLC and the Evolving Scholarly Record
Marseille (France)
Ixchel M. Faniel explores the contours of the evolving scholarly record, including stakeholders, stewardship, conscious coordination, and the "inside out library."
Topics: Evolving Scholarly Record, Research Data Management, Research Information Management, User Research