Libraries tackle the challenge of research data management

Two special issues of the International Federation of Library Associations’ IFLA Journal are required to adequately represent the quality submissions of a call for papers for research data activities in libraries. This underlines that libraries are indeed tackling the challenge of research data management (Witt and Horstmann, 2016). Libraries are not doing this alone:they collaborate closely with the researcher as well as with other organizations such as IT services, research offices and research funders.