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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.

Convenience and Compliance: Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management
7 December 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, Constance Malpas
Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research
1 December 2017
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, Stephanie Mikitish
How well can academic library administrators and staff demonstrate that the academic library is useful to students? Do these administrators and staff have metrics that show how their programs, collections, and spaces impact student learning outcomes and institutional goals? Can they illustrate to provosts* the library’s value to support increased spending?

The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents: Facets of Online Engagement
21 November 2017
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vanessa Kitzie, Erin M. Hood, William Harvey

Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries
31 October 2017
Chela Scott Weber

Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library's Role
19 October 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Anna Clements, Carol Feltes, David Groenewegen, Simon Huggard, Holly Mercer, +

The Realities of Research Data Management Part Two: Scoping the University RDM Service Bundle
28 September 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas

The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: A Synthesis of the Harvard Library’s Hazen Memorial Symposium
2 August 2017
Constance Malpas, Merrilee Proffitt

Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get into the Flow, Second Edition
8 June 2017
Ricky Erway, Jennifer Schaffner, Merrilee Proffitt

Demystifying IT: A Framework for Shared Understanding between Archivists and IT Professionals
27 April 2017
Seth Shaw, Richard C. Adler, Jackie Dooley

Developing Web Archiving Metadata Best Practices to Meet User Needs
31 March 2017
Jackie M. Dooley, Karen Stoll Farrell, Tammi Kim, Jessica Venlet

The Realities of Research Data Management: A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space
30 March 2017
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas

Collective Wisdom: An Exploration of Library, Archives and Museum Cultures
21 March 2017
by the participants in the Library, Archives and Museum Conference Exchange project

Comparison of Topic Extraction Approaches and Their Results
7 March 2017
Theresa Velden, Kevin W. Boyack, Jochen Gläser, Rob Koopman, Andrea Scharnhorst, Shenghui Wang

Contextualization of Topics – Browsing through the Universe of Bibliographic Information
1 March 2017
Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, Andrea Scharnhorst

Mutual Information Based Labelling and Comparing Clusters
28 February 2017
Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang

Practices Do Not Make Perfect: Disciplinary Data Sharing and Reuse Practices and Their Implications for Repository Data Curation
25 January 2017
Ixchel M. Faniel, Elizabeth Yakel

Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries
23 January 2017
Kendra Morgan, Merrilee Proffitt

Users and Uses of a Global Union Catalog: A Mixed-methods Study of WorldCat.org
20 January 2017
Simon Wakeling, Paul Clough, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Barbara Sen, David Tomás

From Records to Things: Managing the Transition from Legacy Library Metadata to Linked Data
1 January 2017
Carol Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura
RAMP – the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal: A Prototype Web Service that Accurately Counts Item Downloads from Institutional Repositories
1 January 2017
Patrick Obrien, Kenning Arlitsch, Jeff Mixter, Jonathan Wheeler, Leila Belle Sterman

Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval: Creating Knowledge through Research Synergies
27 December 2016
Judit Bar-Ilan, Marcus John, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, Philipp Mayr, Andrea Scharnhorst, +

Mining MARC's Hidden Treasures: Initial Investigations Into How Notes of the Past Might Shape Our Future
16 December 2016
Jay Weitz, Jenny Toves, Diane Vizine-goetz, Nannette Naught, Robert Bremer

Research Methods in Library and Information Science, 6th Edition
21 November 2016
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Marie L. Radford

What Do We Want to Know: Completing an Action-Oriented Research Agenda
2 November 2016
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vanessa Kitzie, William Harvey

Undercounting File Downloads from Institutional Repositories
11 October 2016
Patrick Obrien, Kenning Arlitsch, Leila Sterman, Jeff Mixter, Jonathan Wheeler, Susan Borda

Linking FAST and Wikipedia
12 August 2016
Rick Bennett, Eric Childress, Kerre Kammerer, Diane Vizine-Goetz

National Agenda for Continuing Education and Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums
1 July 2016
Christina Drummond, Bob Beatty, Tom Clareson, Betha Gutsche, Donna McCrea, Anna Shelton, Katherine Skinner
This National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development across Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides a broad planning and evaluation framework for the systemic strengthening of continuing education and professional development (CE/PD) across the landscape of funders, professional associations, program administrators, and trainers involved.

Integrating the Library in the Life of the User: An Annotated Bibliography of Practical Ideas
23 June 2016
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Erin M. Hood

A Division of Labor: The Role of Schema.org in a Semantic Web Model of Library Resources
15 June 2016
Carol Jean Godby

Strength in Numbers: The Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Collective Collection
2 June 2016
Constance Malpas, Brian Lavoie

Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI
3 May 2016
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Janifer Gatenby, Grace Agnew, +

Building Blocks: Laying the Foundation for a Research Data Management Program
13 April 2016
Ricky Erway, Laurence Horton, Amy Nurnberger, +

Local Action and National Impact: A Summary of Project Outcomes and Learning from Geek the Library
6 April 2016
Sharon Streams

Shared Values, New Vision: Collaboration and Communities of Practice in Virtual Reference and SQA
6 March 2016
Marie L. Radford, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Stephanie Mikitish, Mark Alpert, Chirag Shah, Nicole A. Cooke

Time to Open Up! The Why and How of Opening Up Archival Finding Aids and the Unintended Consequences of Being Closed.
1 March 2016
Merrilee Proffitt, Heather Briston

If You Build It, Will They Fund? Making Research Data Management Sustainable
7 January 2016
Ricky Erway, Amanda Rinehart

Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging
16 December 2015
Merrilee Proffitt, Jim Michalko, Melissa Renspie

Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC
3 December 2015
Carol Jean Godby, Ray Denenberg

The Library in the Life of the User: Engaging with People Where They Live and Learn
9 November 2015
Lynn Silipigni Connaway

The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials
7 July 2015
Jackie Dooley

Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record: From the Invisible Hand to Conscious Coordination
29 June 2015
Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
IMLS Focus: Engaging Communities
2 June 2015
Chrystie Hill, Sharon Streams, Jackie Dooley, Liz Morris

Destruction-reconstruction: Preservation of Archaeological and Zoological Research Data
1 June 2015
Rebecca D. Frank, Elizabeth Yakel, Ixchel M. Faniel

Looting Hoards of Gold and Poaching Spotted Owls: Data Confidentiality Among Archaeologists & Zoologists
14 May 2015
Ixchel Faniel, Rebecca D. Frank, Adam Kriesberg, Elizabeth Yakel

Social Scientists' Satisfaction with Data Reuse
13 May 2015
Ixchel M. Faniel, Adam Kriesberg and Elizabeth Yakel

IMLS Focus: The National Digital Platform
28 April 2015
Ricky Erway, Chrystie Hill, Sharon Streams, Steph Harmon

Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description
4 April 2015
Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang, Jeffrey K. Mixter

New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL's 75th Anniversary
16 March 2015