Ithaka S+R announces new research program

[Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>]

Ithaka S+R Announces New Program: Research Support Services for 
Scholars

Ithaka S+R is pleased to announce a new program, Research Support 
Services for Scholars, that will comprise a series of 
discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically 
needed research about the evolving behavior and needs of scholars 
to the information support service providers who work with them. 
Based on this research, Ithaka S+R will make recommendations 
regarding the future of support services for scholars and how 
information service providers-such as libraries, computing 
support centers, scholarly societies, and publishers-can support 
their needs.

Ithaka S+R begins this international research program with two 
projects: a research project in chemistry, with support from JISC 
and an emphasis on the needs of UK chemists, and a research 
project in history, with support from the National Endowment of 
the Humanities and an emphasis on US historians.

Read more about the program and projects:

<http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/research-support-services-for-scholars>

Are you a scholar in chemistry or history? Do you know someone 
who is? Or are you an information service provider to these 
fields? Help us by providing feedback during our research process 
or encouraging others to do so through our project website at:

<http://www.researchsupportservices.net>

About Ithaka S+R

Ithaka S+R (http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r) is a strategic 
consulting and research service that focuses on the 
transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online 
environment, with the goal of identifying the critical issues 
facing our community and acting as a catalyst for change. 
Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that 
helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve 
the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in 
sustainable ways. JSTOR, a research and learning platform, and 
Portico, a digital preservation service, are also part of ITHAKA.


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Marita La Monica
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6400