Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage
We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (European edition)
On 19 February, European librarians from eight OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions came together at the University of Edinburgh to discuss scholarly communications challenges, including research data management (RDM), research information …
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Scaling Innovation in Higher Education: The University Innovation Alliance (UIA)
Colleges and universities have a long tradition of competing and collaborating with one another. Institutions compete for resources (enrollment, faculty and student talent, grant revenues, etc.) as well as reputation. …
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University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions
Over the last several months, OCLC Research has been working to develop a framework for exploring emerging directions in US higher education, to better understand the institutional needs that academic …
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NEW: The Realities of Research Data Management: Part Three Now Available!
A new year heralds a new RDM report! Check out Incentives for Building University RDM Services, the third report in OCLC Research’s four-part series exploring the realities of research data …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (North American edition)
On November 1st, North American members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership came together in Baltimore to engage in day-long discussion on three concurrent topics: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts, unique and distinctive …
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
My colleagues Rebecca Bryant and Merrilee Proffitt have summarized discussions at our 1 November 2017 regional OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting in Baltimore on evolving scholarly services and workflows and …
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Announcing a Spanish language version of the Survey on Research Information Management Practices
We are pleased to announce that thanks to translation support from CONCYTEC, the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation, the international Survey of Research Information Management Practices, collaboratively …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership: moving forward with unique and distinctive collections
On November 1st, North American members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership came together in Baltimore to engage in day-long discussions on several topics. Rebecca has already posted about the discussion of evolving scholarly services and …
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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership
Who should take the Survey of Research Information Management Practices?
Is it someone in the library? Or maybe in the office of institutional research? What about the office of the vice president for research? Or maybe the provost’s or rector’s …
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