Association of Research Libraries

The SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) project is a community-based effort anchored in three higher education associations: Association of Research Libraries, Association of American Universities and Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. SHARE will build a Notification System as a metadata store, or digest, of research release events (e.g., the release of publications, presentations, datasets, and other output from research projects) from existing but disparate sources. The SHARE Notification System will be a structured way to report and notify parties of the research release events that interest them, such as the publication of a paper funded by a specific granting body, a presentation by a researcher at a specific university, or the submission of a dataset related to a specific grant award. Interested parties could either subscribe to the Notification System based on criteria of interest (grant, agency, university, or date range), or query a dashboard to create reports. The technical development of the Notification System will leverage to the greatest extent possible existing code, frameworks, and vocabulary.