1. Research Data and the Role ofUniversity LibrariesJohn
Murtagh, Research Data ManagementOfficer, Library and Learning
ServicesLondon Information & Knowledge Exchange 25 April
2013
2. Outline1. Context at UEL2. Why librarians, and the skills
gap3. Learning resource supportDM4. Setting up an RDM support
service
3. Lovely Acronyms RDM = Research Data Management Jisc = Joint
Information ServicesCommittee EPSRC = Engineering &
PhysicalSciences Research Council RCUK = umbrella organisation
ofResearch Councils UK DCC Digital Curation Centre
4. UEL and data management Identified RDM as issue in 2009
followingKeeping Research Data Safe Report Responded to EPSRC
letter by drafting apolicy - adopted March 2012 Bespoke support
under DCCs InstitutionalEngagement programme
5. Why is it important (now)?
6. Funders want wider access to researchthey paid for starting
to
demandaccesshttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-policies
7. 26/04/2013 The University of SheffieldPrevention/detection
of fraud
8. 26/04/2013 The University of SheffieldSharing and publishing
Data Growing interest in publishingdata papers which can be citedin
a similar method to normalpapers via DOIs DataCite
(www.datacite.org) isan example of generating DOIsfor data citation
New Journal of OpenPsychology Data (Ubiquitypress) Such papers
describe what thedata is, how it was collected,methodology,
variables,suggested reuse and a link tothe actual data Get academic
credit for sharingdata
9. Benefits of sharing dataImage from Journal of Open
Psychology Data, Ubiquity
10. Why are Universities involved? Public pressure - E.g. The
British MedicalJournals open data campaign to achieveindependent
scrutiny of data from clinical trials Researchers themselves
research integrityfor prevention/detection of fraud in
research(replicable results of data) Universities (obligations to
research record andassets) Research Data Policies Edinburgh
toOxford to UEL
11. Why are Universities involved? IT Services face increasing
demands forstorage and support and cloud storage for largeresearch
data sets Research Offices need to ensure compliancewith Funder
grants, monitor DMPs and asguarantors for funding e.g. EPSRC
Libraries natural role of knowledge exchangeand information
expertise.
12. Why are libraries involved? Academics need help Libraries
have sought involvement Libraries have permanence,
infrastructureand staff Librarians have relevant skills Will also
involve IT, Research Offices etc.
13. What will/might librarians do? Help with data management
plans Data repositories, and help in transferringto data archives
Quality metadata Appraisal of datasets what to keep? Training and
guidance
14. Why are libraries leading RDM? Most of the Jisc RDM
projects are library-led not all, and often working inconjunction
with IT and/or Research Office Close to researchers as library
users Data are a form of information librariansmanage information
Libraries are trusted partners (impartial)&we committed to
long-termscientific/scholarly endeavour
15. What is the TraD project? Embedding good RDM practice at
UEL Training doctoral students in Psychology Training MSc taught
students in Geo-informatics Generic workshop in Graduate School
Training course for liaison librarians Create, deliver and evaluate
materials Seek to adopt in curricula and trainingprogrammes
16. Sheila Corrall, Univ. of PittsburghPowerful synergies exist
between thelongstanding library commitment to openaccess and the
philosophy of open science,between the principles underpinning
librarycollection management and emerging protocolsfor curating
digital data, between the track recordof libraries in technology
adoption and systemsdevelopment and the complex demands
forintegrated infrastructure and novel workflows,and between the
teaching mission of librariansand the educational agenda for
e-research.Corrall, Sheila (2012), "Roles and responsibilities:
libraries, librarians and data", In: Pryor, G.(ed.), Managing
research data. Facet Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85604-756-2.
17. TraD is a Jisc-funded project of Library andLearning
Services at the University of East London.With the support of the
Digital Curation Centre.John MurtaghEmail [email protected]
www.uel.ac.uk/trad/Blog datamanagementuel.wordpress.comThank
you