and the term Academic Engagement in two jobs. Other variants included the position of Head of Relationship Management at York, and the five Heads of Faculty Services in the senior team at Southampton (where academic liaison is directed by the Deputy Librarian). The most complex title identified was Assistant Director – Academic Liaison, Learning & Research Support, and Academic Skills at the University of Birmingham (a position that has subsequently been changed to Academic Engagement).

The collection development/management function was equally prominent, also being represented in the senior teams of three-quarters of the sample. However, the term “collection” was used explicitly in slightly less than half the sample, and the titles of the relevant roles, divisions, or sections also varied within these cases, e.g., Collection & Access Management (Nottingham),Cambridge directs the University Library’s Research Skills Programme, but is also a member of the University’s Open Access Project team; at Imperial, the intended focus of the new position of Research Support Librarian (Medicine) was mediated literature searching for systematic reviews, but the role developed to provide support in other areas, such as data management. Other longer established examples of specialist research support provision in libraries include two largely grant-funded units, the Support Unit for Research Evidence (SURE, established in 2000) at Cardiff, which specializes in systematic reviews of the literature; and the Centre for Research Communications at Nottingham (established formally in 2009, but with a history going back to the SHERPA project of 2002–2006), which carries out research and development work in scholarly communication, open access and