From: Dirk Pieper <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:37:55 +0200
Hi Joe,
in an open access world the task of libraries is to finance and disseminate the publication output (especially journal articles) of their institutions (universities, research institutions). Libraries are doing the publication and research data management in repositories and/or CRIS systems and take care for the quality, visibility and reuse of the data. Libraries will develop more competences to normalise, enrich and analyse publication and research metadata and will work together closer with research administration departments and academics of their institutions. Of course some traditional tasks will be there as well, but the ressources have to be shifted in this direction to make academic libraries more sustainable in a world, in which SciHub, social media and innovative discovery tools are the means to get academic information in form of journal articles.
Best,
Dirk