To the Editor:
Your article, “Elsevier Is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities Be Wary?” (The Chronicle, August 7), evokes the existential questions for research libraries that members of the Association of Research Libraries routinely confront: What is the library’s role in the research enterprise, beyond purchasing and licensing content? How can libraries support scholarly workflow at all stages of the research life cycle, including preservation and stewardship of research outputs? And how can we ensure that metadata — knowledge about the scholarly enterprise (which is the library’s professional domain) — can be freely exchanged and queried? Your rhetorical headline was apt in focusing on universities. Libraries have long been wary of the private sector’s role in data about scholarship.
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