Abstract
In an ideal research world, any scientific content should be citable and the coherent content, as well as the citation itself, should be persistent. However, today’s scientists do not only produce traditional research papers – they produce comprehensive digital resources and collections. TIB’s mission is to develop a supportive framework for a sustainable access to such digital content – focusing on areas of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics. The term digital content comprises all digitally available resources such as audiovisual media, databases, texts, images, spreadsheets, digital lab journals, multimedia, 3D objects, statistics and software code. In executing this mission, TIB provides services for the management of digital content during ongoing and for finished research. This includes: - a technical and administrative infrastructure for indexing, cataloguing, DOI registration and licensing for text and digital objects, namely the TIB DOI registration which is active since 2005, - the administration of the ORCID DE consortium, an institutional network fostering the adoption of ORCID across academic institutions in Germany, - training and consultancy for data management, complemented with a digital repository for the deposition and provision of accessible, traceable and citable research data (RADAR), - a Research and Development Department where innovative projects focus on the visualization and the sustainable access to digital information, and - the development of a supportive framework within the German research data community which accompanies the life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer. Its goal is to harmonize (meta)data display and exchange primarily on a national level (LEIBNIZ DATA project).
Highlights
Academic libraries are experts at identifying, selecting, organizing, describing, preserving, and providing access to information materials, print and digital resources
Data libraries which record the old and new findings of research which we are experiencing in these exciting age of digitization, for research data and other digital research outputs which are not served by big data centres need to be established. How to achieve this goal? How can we organize it that a digital network, a virtual library can assist to preserve research outputs such as research data, audiovisual media, databases, texts, images, spreadsheets, digital lab journals, images, multimedia, 3D objects, statistics and software code can be found and cited? And how can these resources be re-used to test new hypotheses, combine data and reproduce scientific findings?. When it comes to digital academic resources such as journal articles and the emerging research data, the use of unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) has become a central aspect of proper data management and access
Within Research Data Alliance (RDA), the focus is on the topics libraries for research data, long tail of research data, publishing, cost recovery for data centres, legal interoperability, metadata as well as PID services
Summary
Academic libraries are experts at identifying, selecting, organizing, describing, preserving, and providing access to information materials, print and digital resources. They have been a safe harbour for research publications of all disciplines since centuries. When it comes to digital academic resources such as journal articles and the emerging research data, the use of unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) has become a central aspect of proper data management and access. Libraries are helping to prepare data for sharing and re-use much earlier in the research life-cycle (e.g. in the development of a Data Management Plan, a data collection, or a long-time data storage) While developing these services, research libraries need to be an active player in national, European or international initiatives (Pinfield et al 2014). Within RDA, the focus is on the topics libraries for research data, long tail of research data, publishing, cost recovery for data centres, legal interoperability, metadata as well as PID services
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