A view of the research support landscape and RLG partnership activities to help academic librarians provide better services. Given at the Spring CNI briefing in Minneapolis April 6, 2009. By Ricky Erway, OCLC Research

1. IR Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institutional Repository Ricky Erway CNI Briefing April 6, 2009

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4. The Research Information Management Universe User Domain Institution Data Environment Scholar; Scopus; WoK; WorldCat; Oaister; CiteSeer; Google Books; datasets; databases; EEBO/ECCO; VREs; repositories; etc Self-assessment (Netherlands; Nordic) Funding-based (UK, Australia) Tenure based (US) PR and institutional reputation (all) Comfort zone, but with competition issues Assessment Regime Large research-oriented (tend toward STEM) Smaller research-oriented (tend toward humanities) Tenure issues Funding issues

5. RLG Research Information Management (RIM) Program

6. Mind the Layers Rick Luce: ARL/CNI presentation October 2008

9. Institution Domain User

10. First, some context . . .

12. Patterns of Convergence in Scholarly Practice accessing assessing chaining disseminating networking Interdisciplinary probing translating Humanities Sciences direct searching scanning co-authoring coordinating monitoring data-sharing browsing collecting re-reading assembling consulting note-taking Adapted from C. Palmer, L. Teffau, C. Pirmann (2009)

25. The high-level view of the Research Information Management Workflow Peer review Datamining Exporting statistics Research output metrics Output : grant ratio Optimize discoverability Output to other repositories Publication Open Access Bibliography Long term preservation Info asset stewardship Back-up Persistent identifiers Rights Centers of excellence Placement of grads Start-ups, spin-offs Acquire content Name authority control Quality control Input Faculty deposit Assess Share Retain Collect Institutional research output and assessment (services performed on behalf of the institution) Inform tenure process Increased visibility on Web Output services Public database Identify expertise Expert profiling Authoritative metadata Assembling data Datamining Assess Share Analyze Collect Individual reputation management (services performed on behalf of the scholar) Publishing Teaching Data sharing Rights Management Archiving Writing Reviewing & rating Describing Analyzing Annotating Organizing Acquiring Collecting Keeping current Structured finding Collaborative finding Serendipitous finding Grant process Share Create Gather Discover Fund The researcher's workflow (services to support the scholar's work)