related areas.

Management of the institutional repository/research archive is now an established library function, but its location within the organization structure varies. In two instances within the sample, the repository function had been subsumed within the institutional research information system managed by the research office; in another two examples, the repository service was a joint venture with the university computing service, but located in the library. However, repository management was mostly a library responsibility, generally located either in the library’s systems/IT/digital services division (10 examples), or with academic/research and learning services (9 examples). In two cases the research support librarian or equivalent was formally designated as the institutional repository manager, and in another two cases, the research support leader had formerly filled the role of repository manager. At Birmingham,as a Library-led collaboration with IT Services and Research & Enterprise Development; it is staffed by a Manager, two Senior Research Data Librarians and an Assistant Research Data Librarian. Sheffield has formed a new Research Support Team within its Learning & Research Services group, which includes two Coordinators for Open Access and Research Data Management, two Open Access Assistants and a Research Data Management Liaison Assistant.

3.6 Dedicated spaces

The University of Warwick Library launched its Wolfson Research Exchange in 2008 as an innovative suite of specialist services and dedicated technology-rich spaces for researchers, with provision for quiet study, interdisciplinary networking, academic meetings, and social activities, and a programme of events on topics such as funding opportunities, grant applications, data management, journal impact, and spinout companies, “offered not only by