Accepted and Emerging Roles of Academic Libraries in Supporting Research 2.0.

Abstract This paper identifies some of the tasks and roles that academic libraries have to fulfil in order to react to the appearance of Research 2.0 that materialises in data intensive research and requires supporting activities. Reacting to the appearance of Research 2.0 by becoming service providers for scholars working on data-intensive tasks will become an imperative for libraries worldwide, even though due to the differences between countries and institutions, the tasks described in this paper may not seem urgent today. On the other hand, the issues, we identified are already part of everyday best practices in several institutions. Some of them are fairly recent or have taken new characteristics. A few roles identified in this paper are on their way to become standard occupation, while there are still ones that require innovative approaches. Our argument is based on a non-exhaustive review of the recent literature, reporting both on theoretical and practical issues and presenting the results of empirical research in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]