Creating and Maintaining a Sustainable Research Data Management Service: Where Do Librarians Fit?
- 1. Creating and Maintaining a Sustainable Research Data Management Service: Where Do Librarians Fit? Jill Evans, Gareth Cole & Hannah Lloyd-Jones (University of Exeter)
- 2. Introduction • Who are we? – The Open Exeter Project – JISC funded: looking into Research Data Management issues at the University of Exeter – Inter-departmental
- 3. Open Exeter • Main work strands: – Follow the Data • Working with six PGRs • DAF survey – Advocacy and Governance – Technical Development • Creation of Exeter Data Archive – Creation of Training Materials • Researcher Development Programme (RDP) • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) • One-stop shop website • Lunch byte workshops
- 4. Research Data Management (RDM) • What is RDM? • Why is it important? • Why should librarians be involved? • What can research data encompass?
- 5. What can Research Data be? Types of data used by participants at the Debate, Discuss and Disseminate Workshop: o Paper, i.e. printouts of experiment o Word documents o Excel spreadsheets o Interview transcripts o Audio files (recordings of interviews) o Mapping data o PDFs o Raw data in CSV form o Post-processed data in text files o Graphs o Tables for literature review o Search data for systematic review o Interviews and surveys: audio files, word transcripts o Photographs o Photocopies of documents from the archives o NVivo files o STATA files
- 6. What can Research Data be? (2)
- 7. Over To You • What do you know about RDM issues? • What would you like to know about RDM that you don’t currently know? • What training would you like to have on RDM? – What format would you like this training to have?
- 8. Training • Who for? – Researchers – Professional Services Staff • What form should training take? – One-to-one sessions – Workshops – Presentations – Online modules
- 9. How Researchers at Exeter want to be Trained
- 10. Training (2) • What should be included in the training? – Data Management Plans – Organising research material – File and Document Management e.g. versioning – Ethical and confidentiality issues – Bibliographic Software – Institutional Repositories and Open Access – Any others?
- 11. What RDM Training Researchers at Exeter want. Training Area Number How to Develop a Data 144 Management Plan Organising Research Material 123 File and Document Management 112 Legal and Ethical Issues 115 Bibliographic Software 83 Institutional Repositories and Open 121 Access
- 12. Policy • How do librarians fit in? • Where do librarians fit in? – Research and Knowledge Transfer staff – Assistant College Managers for Research – Computer Development Officers – Central IT Services • Who should have responsibility for what? – Need for a clear structure otherwise researchers will not become engaged
- 13. Sustainability - Institutional • Needs to be sustainable: – Sticks: • Research Councils’ policies • Government initiatives on Open Access – Carrots: • Increased chances of collaboration for inter-disciplinary research • Increased citations for researchers • Recognition to researchers for ALL their work • Librarians become more integrated and involved in the research process
- 14. The Librarian’s role is changing • Re-skilling for Research report (January 2012) • Evolutionary process • As information professionals, academic librarians need to be experts on managing information as well as finding it • Increased awareness of the needs of the research community
- 15. Any Questions?