Locally, improved global discovery and access to Drexel-generated research output will position the University to shape future research. Strengthening higher education’s infrastructures to address the responsibility of disseminating new knowledge will improve value of our collective contributions to scholarship. Their traditions of understanding variations in behaviors across disciplines and working in collaborative and networked environments provide approaches to help leverage campus resources and share the exploration and development of new tools, procedures and policies. To help resolve these new challenges, librarians apply their experience and expertise with scholarly publications, with organization and metadata descriptions of knowledge, and with system design and service delivery to efficiently discover and access information resources. Universities are increasingly assuming responsibilities to help manage access to the research output their communities generate both locally and globally. Information technologies and networked information resources offer both powerful flexibility and ease to express and share new knowledge, but also require changes in the way academics manage the preservation, dissemination and rights to research data and scholarship. The value of these institutional assets increases through their use in future research. University, government, foundation and industry investments in higher education have long enabled research and the growth of intellectual capital to benefit society. Through improving ways to discover and access Drexel-generated research output and scholarship, the Libraries will extend its traditional role of supporting undergraduate student academic success to include enabling greater research impact among its faculty, staff and graduate students.Ĭommitment to the creation of new knowledge and scholarship is a distinguishing university mission. The Libraries’ refreshed strategic plan for 2017 – 2022 gives center stage to its unique contributions toward meeting Drexel’s ambition to become a comprehensive research university. Managing access to research data and other digital content offers unprecedented opportunities to transform the Drexel Libraries into a modern research library.

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