Scientific collaboration: new challenges for university libraries

The aim of this poster is to present the challenges of scientific collaboration and how university libraries can contribute to solve them. Survey responses from 3070 researchers (N=11090) of the main universities of the Valencia region in Spain, were analyzed. 76,35% of the professors of Valencia Region universities in Spain, participated in collaborative research in 2015-2016; from this group, 94.34% value collaboration as critical or essential. University Libraries should engage with and promote: • The development and dissemination of information services (provide technical resources, multipurpose database [funding, impact, researchers, teams or institutions] and provide physical meeting spaces and events). • Expansion of services (provide support and access, conduct training activities, and develop systems for evaluating the cooperative work and activities of research groups/research teams). • Specialized services provided within research teams (librarians embedded in research teams, and participating in writing and reviewing manuscripts).