Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 49 Issue 4

Research data management and openness: The role of data sharing in developing institutional policies and practices

Rosie Higman, Stephen Pinfield

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between research data management (RDM) and data sharing in the formulation of RDM policies and development of…

Variability in academic research data management practices: Implications for data services development from a faculty survey

Amanda L. Whitmire, Michael Boock, Shan C. Sutton

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how knowledge of local research data management (RDM) practices critically informs the progressive development of research data…

Using participatory design and visual narrative inquiry to investigate researchers’ data challenges and recommendations for library research data services

Eleanor Mattern, Wei Jeng, Daqing He, Liz Lyon, Aaron Brenner

The purpose of this paper is to report on an information gathering study on users’ research data-related challenges and proposals for library research data services (RDS). This…

Building a research data management service for the London school of hygiene & tropical medicine

Gareth Knight

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of work performed at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to set-up a Research Data Management Service and…

Librarians as partners in research data service development at Griffith University

Samantha Searle, Malcolm Wolski, Natasha Simons, Joanna Richardson

The purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution to date and future directions in research data policy, infrastructure, skills development and advisory services in an…

New alliances for research and teaching support: establishing the Göttingen eResearch Alliance

Birgit Schmidt, Jens Dierkes

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of policies, digital infrastructures and hands-on support for eResearch at the University of Göttingen. Core…

Research data management at the University of Bristol: Charting a course from project to service

Debra Hiom, Dom Fripp, Stephen Gray, Kellie Snow, Damian Steer

The purpose of this paper is to chart the development of research data management services within the University of Bristol, from the initial Jisc-funded project, through to pilot…

Research data management services for a multidisciplinary, collaborative research project: Design and implementation of the TR32DB project database

Constanze Curdt, Dirk Hoffmeister

Research data management (RDM) comprises all processes, which ensure that research data are well-organized, documented, stored, backed up, accessible, and reusable. RDM systems…

Special issue: Research Data Management

Andrew Cox