Poster by: Alison Stevenson, Victoria University of Wellington. 

eResearch focuses on technological platforms that enhance researchers' ability to generate, collect, share, analyse, store and retrieve information. Earlier this year the Library and IT Services at Victoria University joined forces to identify unmet information-related needs of VUW's researchers and to document these needs as an input to strategic eResearch planning within the University. Information needs in this project are assumed to include information resources, information and communication technologies, and information skills.

A series of seven workshops were held which selected researchers were invited to attend. Workshops were structured around five phases in the research lifecycle: Discovery and Collection; Analysis; Communications and Collaboration; Scholarly Publishing; and Research Administration and Project Management. This poster would summarise the issues raised in the workshops and the steps subsequently taken by both the Library and ITS to improve services to support researchers. Particular attention would be given to the data gathered on researchers' awareness of existing eResearch facilities at the University and the comparative strength of their demand for more technological platforms against their wish for more pro-active liaison relationships with Library and ITS staff.