Leading FAIR Adoption Across the Institution: A Collaboration Between an Academic Library and a Technology Provider

Universities strive to foster knowledge sharing and greater research productivity. Some recognize that this requires output be findable, accessible, interoperable reusable. But current tools do not yet allow a comprehensive adoption of these FAIR principles for making openly globally accessible generate new knowledge. To address gap, diverse stakeholders are collaborating build effective data management [RDM] solutions institutional [publications data] benefit researchers, institutions, developers. This paper illustrates university-industry collaboration between private U.S. university (Drexel University) global commercial vendor (Ex Libris, ProQuest company). The authors examine how an emerging technology infrastructure Research Data Management will enable librarians help institutions adopt the at scale. They highlight approach collaborative product development aims change researcher habits or add librarians’ workloads. Their first year working together confirms factors recognized as contributing successful collaborations, such aligning goals, building understanding each other’s organizations, sustaining honest engagement. Though offers simple articulation campus culture, its implementation vary different groups researchers. Libraries providers have mutual interest in RDM challenges, but must takes time, perseverance, flexibility effect change. Librarians, administrators from offices Research, Compliance, IT, Legal, Graduate Studies key lessons raised by case study.