Responding to the needs of our core research base
We investigated changing patterns of research, speaking to people across the range of subjects, and to a wide cross-section of researchers, including individual academics, post- graduates and corporate R&D workers. We worked with representatives of organisations that fund research, and that benefit from it. Our findings identified the different trends in the main disciplinary divisions – science, technology and medicine; social sciences; arts and humanities. We have matched the Library’s resources used by each sector, outlined the trends in resource use, then set out our proposition for the ways in which we would serve each sector in the coming years.
