Academic Research Library Support of Sponsored Research in the United States

摘要

Academic research libraries support their educational institutions' missions to conduct research, including sponsored (funded) research. In the United States, colleges and universities have performed cost analysis studies, typically employing user surveys, for at least thirty-five years to quantify the extent to which their libraries support sponsored research. The United States government allows educational institutions to seek reimbursement for library expenses related to funded research via the institution's indirect cost rate.This has given American academic institutions an incentive to measure the extent to which their academic libraries support sponsored research.This paper reports on the results of statistically valid studies conducted between 1982 and 2001 at 153 libraries incorporating responses from approximately 150,000 academic library users to measure academic research library support of sponsored (funded) research in the United States.