Research Asset Management: 7 Ways to Improve Your Resource Bank

This article in Information Outlook, the member magazine of the Special Libraries Association describes how "Effective management of your organization's information assets can get you answers more quickly, save staff time and preserve institutional memory."

Library Systems vendor, Inmagic identified seven themes for the effective management of research assets. The company also determined how organizations that are deploying best practices in managing research assets gauge their effects and calculate their benefits.

The article provides an overview of those 7 practices, along with insights on how information professionals are implementing them.

Inmagic customer & power user Jennifer McNenly as Osler Harcourt notes that
"The firm’s knowledge management and reusable work product databases are among the most heavily used assets in the firm. "


The article notes that "
When Olser ranked its research assets in terms of restoring critical services in
case of an emergency, its Inmagic databases were deemed highly critical . . ."

This article's overview of Access to and Reuse of research assets provides a valuable tool for evangelizing best practices in your library and describing its benefits to management.