Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning: Executive Summary

"By supporting open research practices—including the adoption of open metadata standards, creation of machine-readable publications, and deposit of outputs (including underlying data and code) in open repositories—libraries make research more discoverable, reusable, reproducible, and durable. These practices improve both the quality of scholarship itself and the quality and manageability of the scholarly record. Libraries play a critical role in achieving FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) research data through their curation, education, and preservation activities.31 Realizing the vision of FAIR scholarship will be a central challenge for the research community over the next decade...."