Author: REBECCA BRYANT, CHARLES WATKINSON and REBECCA WELZENBACH
Research Information Management (RIM) is an area of considerable growth for North American institutions today. Research universities like the University of California, the University of Michigan, and Virginia Tech use RIM systems in support of a variety of use cases. RIM systems aggregate, curate, and utilize metadata about institutional research activities, and they are able to rapidly collect information about the institution’s research activity through publication metadata harvesting at scale. The ability to harvest and reuse publications metadata at scale is good for STEM journal articles but poor for monographs, with significant implications for RIM systems. Why is this so?
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