New White Paper From Choice: “Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Where are We Today?”

From ALA:

Choice today announced the publication of the fifth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, “Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Where are We Today?”, offers a unique opportunity to revisit and re-examine findings from a 2012 ACRL survey and white paper about research data services (RDS) by reissuing the survey, appropriately updated, and writing about the changes to research data services that have occurred in academic libraries in the past seven years.

Researched and written by Carol Tenopir, Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, and three other authors, the white paper evaluates the extent to which new technologies, new tools, and new perspectives on data management and access have altered the landscape during the past seven years. It seeks to answer such questions as: how have academic libraries positioned themselves in this changed environment?  What progress has been made against the goals probed in the original survey? The work documents not only statistical changes in the services offered but also a more qualitative assessment of impediments to progress in RDS.

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