Research Support at Australian University Libraries

Research support is a strategically increasingly important role of Australian university libraries. The reasons for this trend can be found in the strictly performance-based research politics of the government and the individual universities. This essay describes in detail the new research support services which libraries have been developing and extending during the last years. The main focus is on services such as bibliometrics, institutional repositories, specific support of research students and research data management. A further significant aspect of the study regards how these services are organizationally embedded in the library.