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Dealing with research data as the basis of academic research is a new field for libraries. Their role and scope in this new field is still being discussed and gains importance within the changing reality of the digital academic research setting. In Anglo-American countries as well as in Germany, the concept of information literacy has been broadened and now includes the whole academic research process as well as dealing with research data. After a short glance at the broadened concept of information literacy, the author analyses which services and structures are being developed and applied in New Zea­land in the field of research data management and reflects on the problems which have to be considered when setting up these new services. New Zealand with its well-developed tertiary education system can serve as a model here to see which problems have to be taken into account when striving for the same aim in Germany. Structurally and conceptually, the holistic Research Content Ecology model of Lincoln University can serve as an example for the German context on how to establish a university-wide service for the support of research activities and the enhancement of researchers' information literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]