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Libraries And The University Research Enterprise: An International Perspective, Rebecca Bryant, Simon Huggard, Anne E. Rauh

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Research Information Management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about research. It is emerging as a part of scholarly communications practice in many university libraries and is a service that is typically provided in collaboration with a university’s research enterprise. RIM may interoperate with and support research repositories, researcher profiles, awards management workflows, internal reports, and external assessment. Universities have diverse goals for implementing RIM, and case studies from the US and Australia will be demonstrated in this talk.

Research university libraries are increasingly involved in RIM activities because of the expertise and value that library professionals …