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
Facilitating Successful Cross-Campus Partnerships to Further the University Research Enterprise
virtual
This presentation provides an introduction to the recent OCLC Research report, Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and The University Research Enterprise. Bryant explains why this collaboration is important, who the stakeholders would be, identifies the categories of support-services this collaboration will likely surface, and provides strategies and practical advice about cross-campus relationship-building in research support.
Topics: Research Information Management, Research Support, Research Data Management
The Rapidly Changing Research Information Management Landscape
virtual
Expert finder systems are part of a larger ecosystem of research information management, comprising a variety of use cases, systems, practices, workflows, and stakeholders. This broad array of activities mirrors the complexity and decentralization so characteristic of U.S. higher education, but still reflects commonality in the core practice of aggregating, curating, and using metadata about institutional research activities. Bryant discusses the rapidly changing RIM landscape in the US, the focus of a current project at OCLC Research.
Topics: Research Information Management
Research Information Management in the United States
virtual
Bryant shares highlights of her research into Research Information Management, particularly describing primary US cases, how American practices are distinctive from European—and indeed—global practices, and the importance of cross-institutional collaboration to ensure quality data and reduce workflow duplication.
Recording available from Florida Universities on Zoom.
Topics: Research Information Management
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
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
Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Management Practices
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Bryant goes over findings from an OCLC Research survey that gathered information from libraries around the world on their research information management/CRIS practices.
Topics: Research Information Management
Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices
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
Preliminary Findings from the Global Survey on Research Information Management Practices
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
Workflows in European CRIS Infrastructures: How Smart are Persistent Identifiers?
Learn about workflows in European CRIS infrastructures/research information management (RIM), including local variants of RIM, RIM at scale, and drivers for adoption of persistent identifiers.
Topics: Research Information Management