OPTIMISING RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES THROUGH LIBRARIES: A REVIEW OF PRACTICES
Aditi Rani Das, Swapna Banerjee · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · 2021
In the changing landscape of libraries, the area of Research Support Service is emerging, with new opportunities, and challenges.The study is based on the role of the libraries in supporting research in the Institutes and Universities.This literature review identifies the current level of publications that deal with the relationship of the libraries and their role in the research process, and an examination of science researcher's information seeking needs, role of university libraries in supporting research, changing electronic environment and changing librarian's role, and challenges faced by the libraries with these changes.It aims to determine whether notable changes in the research support services for the doctoral students and scientists have emerged in recent years.The study shows that the support services of doctoral students and scientists provided by libraries follow a steady trend, with many subtle changes, particularly on the technological basis.The selected literature review spreads from 2000 to 2019.The coverage is balanced in that here on one hand the support service of the researchers, the researchers' information seeking need, the environment for the research is discussed, and on the other hand, the challenges for the libraries in print and electronic environment is discussed.