Abstract
University libraries have played an important role in constructing an infrastructure of support for Research Data Management at an institutional level. This paper presents a comparative analysis of two international surveys of libraries about their involvement in Research Data Services conducted in 2014 and 2018. The aim was to explore how services had developed over this time period, and to explore the drivers and barriers to change. In particular, there was an interest in how far the FAIR data principles had been adopted.
 Services in nearly every area were more developed in 2018 than before, but technical services remained less developed than advisory. Progress on institutional policy was also evident. However, priorities did not seem to have shifted significantly. Open ended answers suggested that funder policy, rather than researcher demand, remained the main driver of service development and that resources and skills gaps remained issues. While widely understood as an important reference point and standard, because of their relatively recent publication date, FAIR principles had not been widely adopted explicitly in policy.
Highlights
Increasing invoevement in research data management (RDM) has been one of the major changes in academic eibrary work in the east decade
Libraries have been heaviey invoeved in deveeoping RDM poeicies at the individuae institutionae eevee
117 (56%) of responding eibraries stated that they had a formae RDM poeicy
Summary
Increasing invoevement in research data management (RDM) has been one of the major changes in academic eibrary work in the east decade. Technicae services often buiet around a research data repository and data preservation, and sometimes around data anaeysis and visuaeisation, have emerged. Deeivering these services has demanded recruitment of staff, reskieeing of existing staff and some organisationae restructuring. In this context, there is a strong interest in benchmarking Research Data Services (RDS) and understanding change in the sector as a whoee
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