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:
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Socializing Context in Research Data Reuse
Tampa, Florida, USA
Topics: Research Data Management

OCLC Open Content Update: Where We Are, and Where We’re Going (video)
Topics: Open Access
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“It [library tour] wasn't what do you do when you need to make a literature review…” Proactively Positioning the Library in the Life of the User
Athens, Greece
Topics: Information Literacy, Student Support

The Costs of “Open”: Preliminary Results from a Global Survey
Manchester (UK)
Topics: Open Access

Practices and Patterns: The Convergence of Repository and CRIS Functions
Hamburg, Germany
Topics: Research Information Management

Re(Casting) Call: Sculpting Services & Strategies for Cultivating Online Scholarly Identity
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Topics: Scholarly Identity

Trending Now: Recasting Services to Support Scholarly Identity Work
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Topics: Scholarly Identity

Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
St. Louis, MO (USA)
Topics: Research Information Management

OCLC and the Evolving Scholarly Record
Topics: Evolving Scholarly Record, Research Data Management, Research Information Management, User Research

Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Management Practices
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Topics: Research Information Management