OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organisation for research information, has announced a strategic partnership to recognise and understand international research information management practices through collaborative research. The two organisations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) earlier this year.
Research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilisation of information about research and is emerging as an area of increasing interest and relevance in many university libraries. RIMs, also broadly known as Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), are gaining interest and attention worldwide for their contribution in dealing with new policies on open science, research funding, and national assessment.
RIM intersects with many aspects of traditional library services in discovery, acquisition, dissemination, and analysis of scholarly activities, and does so through the nexus with institutional data systems, researcher workflows, and institutional partners. RIM adoption offers libraries new opportunities to support institutional and researcher goals.
OCLC Research staff, euroCRIS board members, and librarians from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions have been working together since early 2017 to develop a Survey on Research Information Management Practices, which will offer research institutions worldwide the opportunity to share information about their practices. OCLC Research and euroCRIS will synthesise these survey findings into a research report expected in 2018. This survey will launch later in October. More about this project is on the OCLC Research website.
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