Here, we report on a qualitative study that examined research information management (RIM) ecosystems on research university campuses from the perspectives of research information (RI) managers and librarians. In the study, we identified 21 RIM services offered to researchers, ranging from discovering, storing, and sharing authored content to identifying expertise, recruiting faculty, and ensuring the diversity of committee assignments. In addition, we identified 15 types of RIM service provision and adoption problems, analyzed their activity structures, and connected them to strategies for their resolution. Finally, we report on skills that the study participants reported as being needed in their work. These findings can inform the development of best practice guides for RIM on university campuses. The study also advances the state of the art of RIM research by applying the typology of contradictions from activity theory to categorize the problems of RIM service provision and connect their resolution to theories and findings of prior studies in the literature. In this way, the research expands the theoretical base used to study RIM in general and RIM at research universities in particular.

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“自创”——大学校园科研信息管理问题研究

在这里，我们报告了一项定性研究，该研究从研究信息 (RI) 经理和图书馆员的角度研究了研究型大学校园的研究信息管理 (RIM) 生态系统。在这项研究中，我们确定了为研究人员提供的 21 项 RIM 服务，从发现、存储和共享创作的内容到识别专业知识、招聘教师以及确保委员会任务的多样性。此外，我们确定了 15 种类型的 RIM 服务提供和采用问题，分析了它们的活动结构，并将它们与解决策略联系起来。最后，我们报告了研究参与者报告的工作中需要的技能。这些发现可以为大学校园中 RIM 最佳实践指南的制定提供信息。该研究还通过应用活动理论中的矛盾类型学对 RIM 服务提供的问题进行分类，并将其解决方案与文献中先前研究的理论和发现联系起来，从而推进了 RIM 研究的最新进展。通过这种方式，该研究扩展了用于研究 RIM 的理论基础，特别是研究型大学的 RIM。