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

Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise

20 August 2020

Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, Brian Lavoie

The report defines social interoperability and describes the network of campus units involved in major areas of university research support services. It concludes by offering recommendations for cultivating successful cross-campus relationships.

Vers un changement de cap : les bibliothèques, expertes en métadonnées au service de la recherche

11 July 2018

Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Contance Malpas

This excerpt of the OCLC Research Report, The Realities of Research Data Management—published in the French journal Archimag—examines the categories of incentives that inspired four research universities to acquire RDM capacity: compliance, evolving scholarly norms, institutional strategy, and research demand.

The Realities of Research Data Management Part Four: Sourcing and Scaling University RDM Services

26 April 2018

Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas

This report series explores how research universities are managing research data throughout the research lifecycle. This fourth report in this series examines the sourcing and scaling choices made by four research universities in their acquisition of research data management (RDM) capacity.

The Realities of Research Data Management Part Three: Incentives for Building University RDM Services

4 January 2018

Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas

The Realities of Research Data Management series explores the research data management (RDM) capacity acquisition incentives motivating research universities. The third report creates four categories of RDM capacity incentives: compliance, evolving scholarly norms, institutional strategy, and researcher demand.