A Slice of Research Life: Information Support for Research in the United States

ISBN-10
1556533829
ISBN-13
9781556533822
Category
Diffusion of innovations
Pages
24
Language
English
Published
2010
Authors
Susan Kroll, Rick Forsman

Description

This report summarizes a study of the relevant literature and the information gained through interviews of researchers, research assistants, graduate students, grant and other research administration specialists and university administrators at four U.S. elite research institutions -- Cornell University, The Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Washington -- in order to discover researcher's needs and desires in a variety of disciplines as they perform the complex task of creating new knowledge. "In the spring of 2009, OCLC Research and the Research Information Network (RIN) initiated parallel investigations into current use of tools and services that support of all stages of the research life cycle in institutions of higher education in the U.S. and the United Kingdom ... By focusing on the tools and services used by researchers, the two studies were to document how these support elements are being used at the present time, how effective they are in meeting researcher needs, and whether there are existing unmet needs that are common to all disciplines or that vary by field." p. 6.

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