A CURL project to promote collaborative collection management. CoFoR (Collaboration For Research) was a CURL initiative set up to provide its members and other research libraries with practical tools (templates, guidelines and recommendations) for collaborative acquisition and retention. It also gave special attention to techniques for serial deduplication and to the mapping of relationships between research activity and library provision.

The 21-month project built on work already carried out by the RSLP COCOREES project (Collaborative Collection Management for Russian and East European Studies) and by the CURL Task Force on Resource Management. The service offered by the COCOREES database, with its large set of collection descriptions and massive finding list for Russian and East European serials will be maintained.