Futurecast Washington DC 8 June 2011 Ricky Erway Jennifer Schaffner Program Officers OCLC Research Library Partnership Research Information Management

The two guiding questions What is most needed by our partners ? What lends itself to collaborative attention?

Research Information Management Where we’ve come from

2008 RLG Partnership Meeting

The Researcher’s Universe User Domain Institution Data Environment A&I, peer-reviewed journals, search engines, disciplinary repositories, social networks, datasets, databases, e-text centers… Self-assessment Funding-based assessment Tenure-based assessment Comfort zone Collaboration Competition Assessment Regime Scholarly communication Institutional reputation Public relations Grant funding Name identifiers Expertise profiling

Research Information Management Where we’ve been

RIM Working groups Binghamton University, SUNY Brigham Young University California Digital Library Columbia University Emory University Oregon State University Rice University Rutgers University Stanford University The New School Trinity College Dublin University of Alberta University of California, Berkeley University of Cambridge University of Chicago University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Leeds University of Melbourne University of Minnesota University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania University of Sydney University of Warwick

Outcomes to date Institutional reputation assessment Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process Research Assessment and the Role of the Library Research support Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto A Slice of Research Life: Information Support for Research in the United States. Research Support Services in UK Universities Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and Libraries

Research Information Management What comes next?

Looking forward Library support for academia Support for researchers on campus Services that support academia writ large Intersection between library and other campus service departments Managing research Assembling research output OCLC support for libraries and academia

Possible areas of investigation

In all that we do … … We are guided by two questions: What is most needed by our partners ? What lends itself to collaborative attention?

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Disciplinary Repositories and Hubs Institutional IR is about research output assessment and preservation Vertical Often is met with indifference Has institutional support Disciplinary DR is about researchers’ needs Horizontal Often has gravitational pull May have a variety of support A Disciplinary Hub might surround the DR with a variety of other services: Collaborator finder and collaboration workspace Grant information Reputation management and expertise profiling Social networking Data set curation

Disciplinary Hubs What are good examples? What role do mandates play? Is there a data set curation component? Is there a role for library subject liaisons? What is the relationship between IRs and DRs? What are successful sustainability plans?

Disciplinary Hubs - approaches Scan for work that has already been done Identify exemplars of disciplinary hubs Case studies could characterize what works Examine models for sustainability …

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