2026 Top Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues | Planning and Review Committee | College & Research Libraries News

"Academic libraries participated in the Implementing Data Evaluation in Academia Working Group initiated by Make Data Count (https://makedatacount.org/) and HELIOS Open (https://www.heliosopen.org/).⁸⁶ The working group developed a suite of maturity model, practical implementation guides, and case studies on data evaluation in academia.⁸⁷ Together with Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; https://sfdora.org/) and Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA; https://www.coara.org/) efforts, these tools enable institutions to make systematic changes to advance open scholarship practices, including research data. The need to measure the academic and social impacts of open access scholarship is being met by institutions such as the University of Texas Libraries,⁸⁸ which have begun to develop tools to automatically collect citation data from multiple open repositories and systems."