From research to researchers. Adapting services at the Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library

Abstract

Research services have traditionally been a priority of university libraries, particularly at universities with a research vocation. We are in a changing environment in which researchers often have temporary needs. Libraries find it difficult to provide adequate answers to phenomena such as open access to information, crisis in the journal subscription model, need of more processes to evaluate the work of researchers, internationalization, diversity of researcher profiles, etc.). As a result, library services extend the focus of their offerings, giving more support to researchers in their role as writers, and adapting to the priorities of the institution at all times. This article explores the responses of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya- BarcelonaTech´s Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library to these new challenges.