Innovating Support for Research: The Coalescence of Scholarly Communication?

Heather Moulaison Sandy; A.J. Million; Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

doi:10.5860/crl.81.2.193

College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is the official, bi-monthly, online-only scholarly research journal of
the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

About The Authors

Heather Moulaison Sandy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri; email: moulaisonhe@missouri.edu.

A.J. Million is a Research Investigator in the School of Information at the University of Michigan; email: millioaj@umich.edu.

Cynthia Hudson-Vitale is the Head of Research Informatics and Publishing in the Penn State University Libraries; email: cuv185@psu.edu.

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Innovating Support for Research: The Coalescence of Scholarly Communication?

Heather Moulaison Sandy, A.J. Million, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

Abstract

Information professionals housed in academic libraries are increasingly taking a role in supporting scholarly communication activities. This article investigates the extent to which a formal role has grown in ARL libraries, the skills and competencies necessary for supporting work with data in this capacity, and how those skills and competencies relate to the research lifecycle. We find that scholarly communication has formalized in ARL libraries since 2012. We also find that the requisite skills and competencies for scholarly communication work have coalesced since 2009 in support of a core group that, when the research lifecycle is considered, also support the work of scholars.