[LIS-Forum] Libraries should be an integral part of the research process

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

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Embed your library in the research process
  [image: Image from the SHARE Notify service]
<http://www.share-research.org/>

"Librarians need to be more involved in the process of scholarship, not
just collecting its output."

*Judy Ruttenberg*
Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries, Association of
Research Libraries

The same modern technology that advances research methods also expands the
role that libraries play in the research process. Researchers may compile
massive digital data sets, build computer programs to run complex
calculations and present the results through draft papers, blogs,
conference presentations and, finally, published work. Libraries
traditionally have collected and preserved the published work. The SHARE
<http://www.share-research.org> community initiative seeks to engage
librarians in conversations about what to do with these other research
outputs.

"There has been so much conversation about libraries shifting from
collecting outputs to embedding within the research process," explained
Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries at
the Association of Research Libraries <http://www.arl.org/index.php>. "But *The
Evolving Scholarly Record* report opens up the opportunities for libraries
not just to participate in creating scholarship but also to preserve the
pieces of the scholarly record we need to preserve.”

*The Evolving Scholarly Record*
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html>,
a report by OCLC Research, proposes a framework that describes the diverse
array of materials moving into the scholarly record today as well as the
key roles in the stakeholder ecosystem surrounding those materials. "This
framework helps us facilitate conversations about what that broader role
means for services and for the kind of tools we need," Judy said. "Where
does the repository meet the virtual resource environment?"

"The act of doing research and sharing it or releasing it to the community
takes many, many forms. Wouldn't there be a great value in following that
as it happens?"

"The first phase for SHARE is our partnership with the Center for Open
Science <http://centerforopenscience.org/> to build a notification service
called SHARE Notify <http://centerforopenscience.org/pr/2014-06-02/>," Judy
continued. This service will allow researchers to receive notifications
when someone contributes to the "larger pipeline of what scholarship looks
like," she said. "Right now, everything is completely dispersed.
Researchers have a lot of options for how they share, present and archive
their research. …These research release events will push metadata that can
resolve back to where that data lives."

Future SHARE efforts may sound "absurdly ambitious, perhaps," Judy
admitted, but the initiative wants to use the ideas in *The Evolving
Scholarly Record* to lead conversations about further embedding librarians
in the research process and about what type of data to collect. Also, these
broadening roles may require new relationships. "We'll need to continue to
think of those links with new kinds of partners that can help the library
community make this transformation," Judy added. "The stakeholder ecosystem
supports these shifting roles, which I think is great."

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 Services related to SHARE

*The Evolving Scholarly Record* report
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html>

OCLC Research <http://www.oclc.org/research.html>

Serving research libraries <http://www.oclc.org/en-US/rlibs.html>
  SHARE at a glance

   - Developed in 2013 from a partnership among the Association of Research
   Libraries, the Association of American Universities and the Association of
   Public and Land-grant Universities and in a technology partnership with the
   Center for Open Science
   - Mission is to maximize research impact by making a comprehensive
   inventory of research widely discoverable, accessible and reusable
   - Funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library
   Services and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
   - Consists of an Advisory Board, Operations Group and a Working Group
   made up of diverse constituencies and stakeholders
   - Calling for metadata providers to register with SHARE Notify, now in
   beta release

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