Rebecca Bryant, PhD, serves as Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research where she leads collaborative investigations into research information management and research support services with OCLC Research Library Partnership member institutions. Prior to joining OCLC Research, Dr. Bryant served as Project Manager for Researcher Information Services in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she led a campus-wide effort to implement the Elsevier Pure research information management system (RIM). She has also served as Director of Community at ORCID where she led outreach initiatives to encourage the adoption of ORCID identifiers throughout the scholarly communications community. Prior to ORCID, Dr. Bryant spent a decade in the University of Illinois Graduate College as Assistant Dean.