The role of academic and research libraries as active participants and leaders in the production of scholarly research

"Scope [of this report]: Library’s active involvement as a research partner: Includes: being recognised as a collaborator in a research project In Research Council bids this will be a named individual. Other funders might identify an organisation but within that there would be a named individual(s) Excludes: libraries’ role in supporting and facilitating institutional research activities more generally e.g. providing open access repositories, providing basic access for researchers to use repositories.... The research identified a number of skills and areas of experience that library staff contribute to research projects. Skills that library staff responding to the survey felt may be useful in conducting a research project included: ...Open Access expertise...."