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This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will identify and examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process. The project's goal is to discover researchers' needs and desires in a small sample of UK and US universities and to identify the significant patterns, intersections, gaps and issues from researchers' points of view, whatever the source of such services. This study will document the nature and scope of research support services, providing examples of good practice, recommending areas where new practice might emerge, and identifying possible areas and scope for collaboration within and between institutions

Excerpt: "will involve the use of an ecosystem of interacting web-based resources, including the infrastructure provided by the Virtual Observatory, data provisioning services from Astronomy archives, a variety of analysis services such as Astrometry.net, notification services such as skyalert.org, and visualization services such as CDS's Aladin and Microsoft's WorldWideTelescope."

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

Many libraries decided to offer e-publishing services, one model to stay relevant in the digital world.

An evaluation of research support services in four UK institutions discusses support for research dissemination, data curation and intellectual property concerns.

"Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing."

A preprint of an article submitted for publication urging changes to the scholarly journal publishing system. Much of the article reviews previous attempts at change: overlay journals (topical collections of disparate articles from various journals) have not seen widespread adoption; modified open access platforms such as PLOsONE seem to charge too much for what they are; postpublication services such as F1000. The authors propose a model to give authors of articles maximum control of their work and service providers "freedom to innovate"

OpenAccess Statistics: Alternative Impact Measures for Open Access documents? An examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed Open Access services

From a survey of ACRL member libraries, this report examines the scope of library participation in data research services while identifying future opportunities for collaboration, especially in research intensive institutions.

seems not many libraries are involved in RDS yet

From the abstract:" This article examines the MOOC phenomenon, identifying aspects that academic librarians should consider in the coming years, including how these courses interact with scholarly resources and library services. Methods for integrating library services in these courses are evaluated, with recommendations for the best course of action. "

Library Resources & Technical Services 52, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Converting and Preserving the Scholarly Record: An Overview," "Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record," and other articles.

From the abstract: ", we propose a social framework based on crowdsourced annotations of scholars, designed to keep up with the rapidly evolving disciplinary and interdisciplinary landscape. We describe a system called Scholarometer, which provides a service to scholars by computing citation-based impact measures. This creates an incentive for users to provide disciplinary annotations of authors, which in turn can be used to compute disciplinary metrics. We first present the system architecture and several heuristics to deal with noisy bibliographic and annotation data. We report on data sharing and interactive visualization services enabled by Scholarometer. Usage statistics, illustrating the data collected and shared through the framework, suggest that the proposed crowdsourcing approach can be successful. Secondly, we illustrate how the disciplinary bibliometric indicators elicited by Scholarometer allow us to implement for the first time a universal impact measure proposed in the literature. Our evaluation suggests that this metric provides an effective means for comparing scholarly impact across disciplinary boundaries."

A Web service developed by Microsoft Research lets people curate their own personal history - project call "Project Greenwich" launched in Beta in October

VIDaaS (Virtual Infrastructure with Database as a Service) is a project of two halves. The 'DaaS' part will develop software that enables researchers to build, edit, search, and share databases online; the 'VI' part involves the development of an infrastructure enabling the DaaS to function within a cloud computing environment. How does it compare to Harvard's plans? is it similar to Dataverse?

another example from Columbia (Brown has several positions)

"Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this growing field" (open access .pdf file)

Bibliometric and usage-based analyses and tools highlight the value of information about scholarship contained within the network of authors, articles and usage data. Less progress has been made on populating and using the author side of this network than the article side, in part because of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying authors. I briefly review a sample of author identifier schemes, and consider use in scholarly repositories. I then describe preliminary work at arXiv to implement public author identifiers, services based on them, and plans to make this information

IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing associate professor Johan Bollen and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will share the Mellon Foundation grant designed to build upon the Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) project that Bollen began in 2006