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:
Publications

Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy
5 December 2013
Ricky Erway

Thresholds for Discovery: EAD Tag Analysis in ArchiveGrid, and Implications for Discovery Systems
14 October 2013
Marc Bron, Merrilee Proffitt, Bruce Washburn

Social Media and Archives: A Survey of Archive Users
16 August 2013
Bruce Washburn, Ellen Eckert, Merrilee Proffitt

Preservation Metadata (2nd Edition) DPT Technology Watch Report
3 May 2013
Brian Lavoie, Richard Gartner

Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
13 February 2013