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Research support services are essential to the university\u2019s research enterprise\u2014enhancing researcher productivity, facilitating analysis of research activity, and making research outputs visible and accessible across the scholarly community and beyond. Research support services extend over the entire research life cycle\u2014as well as across the entire campus.<\/p>\n
How is research support carried out?<\/p>\n
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Here are a few examples you might encounter around campus:<\/p>\n
A new OCLC Research project, Institutional Stakeholders in Research Support<\/em><\/a>, explores the range of campus stakeholders in research support services, with the goal of identifying key lessons in building fruitful campus partnerships around research support.<\/p>\n Adapted from <\/strong>The Evolving Scholarly Record<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (OCLC Research, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n The university library is an important campus provider of research support services, but certainly not the only one. As the examples cited above suggest, many campus units can be involved in research support. And often, these services are provided through partnerships among multiple campus units\u2014for example, an institutional repository managed by the library and deployed through campus computing resources. Moreover, the consumers of these services are spread out across campus, including not just researchers, but also university offices such as Communications or Faculty Affairs.<\/p>\n In short, research support services extend across the campus in many ways\u2014whether through a distribution of services across multiple campus providers, multi-unit collaboration in service provision, or a wide campus network of service consumers.<\/p>\n Effective engagement in research support services may require the library to work with a wide array of campus units, some of which may be long-standing partners with deep connections to the library, while others may be only superficially familiar. Good collaboration means knowing your partners. Think about a campus partner you work with. How many of these questions can you answer?<\/p>\n Robust, productive campus partnerships must be built on a solid mutual understanding of what each partner brings to the table, in terms of both needs and capacities.<\/p>\nSix questions librarians can ask about their research support partners. #OCLCnext <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n![\"life_cycle\"](\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/life_cycle.jpg\")
<\/p>\nKnow your partners: six questions<\/h2>\n
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