Making Books Count in Research Information Management Systems

Research information management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US research universities and is the focus of a recent OCLC Research report. RIM systems support a variety of use cases, particularly through their ability to aggregate an institutional bibliography through metadata harvesting at scale from sources like Scopus. While good for STEM journal articles, harvesting is remarkably poor for scholarly monographs and book chapters, requiring manual entry and disproportionately impacting humanities content. Why? This session will answer that question by providing an overview of the academic monograph publishing supply chain, demonstrating how it is riddled with gaps and breaks, where metadata is lost and garbled in unpredictable and nonstandard ways. This has significant implications for RIM systems and beyond. We will conclude this presentation with specific recommendations for title management software providers, publishers, metadata aggregators, and libraries. || Speakers: Jeremy Morse, Jennifer Talley, Rebecca Bryant

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 02

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Jennifer Talley

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Metadata Librarian, University of Michigan Library

Jennifer Talley is Open Access Metadata Librarian for Michigan Publishing. She was previously Metadata Librarian for the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center and Cataloging Librarian at ProQuest.

Jeremy Morse

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Director of Publishing Technology, Michigan Publishing

Jeremy Morse is Director of Publishing Technology for Michigan Publishing, the parent organization of University of Michigan Press. Among other roles, he manages the development of the Fulcrum publishing platform, including metadata and discovery workflows for its clients.

Rebecca Bryant

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Senior Program Officer, OCLC

Rebecca Bryant, PhD, is Senior Program Officer with OCLC. She previously served as Assistant Dean in the University of Illinois Graduate College and Director of Community at ORCID. Her research interests include research information management (RIM), persistent identifiers, and institutional scholarly communication practices.