RDM From Strategy to Action?

Results from Digital Curation Centre’s 2014 Survey of UK Higher Education

Institutions

Angus Whyte

What, Why & How

• National picture of institutional progress• Understand barriers, gaps in support needs• 20 questions – online survey link emailed *• To Pro-VC’s for Research & Service Heads• Library, IT, Research Support & Commercialisation• Institutions at least 10% income from research

* Thank you to ARMA, UCISA, SCONUL!

Who took part?Respondents

Russell Group (39)

Others 10%+ (35)

Others (13)

From 61 institutions

Who took part

31%

38%

14%

17%Research Support & Commercialisation

Library or Informa-tion Service

IT/ Research comput-ing

Others

Institutional drivers

UK Research Council data policies

Government policy on open data

Governance of research integrity / academic conduct

Strategy to expand support for research

EU Horizon2020 policy on data management

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

92

57

54

54

53

% Agreeing

Where is there most progress?

Policy development

Data Management & Sharing Plans

RDM skills training & consultancy

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

% indicating piloting or live

Getting there?

Access & storage systems

Data cataloguing & publishing

Managing implementation as a whole

33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42

% indicating piloting or live

Where is there least progress?

Business planning & sustainability

Digital preservation & continuity planning

Governance of data access & reuse

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

% indicating piloting or live

Obstacles

Lack of appropriate staff resources and in-frastructure

Availability of funding

Low priority for researchers

71

64

59

% citing

External Support?

Expected timeline for enabling long-term access to research data

Russell Group

Others 10%+

Others

18

3

9

44

40

38

31

43

38

8

14

14

Currently provide

Within the next 12 months

After 12 months

Don't know

‘Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction’ (anon.)

• What is your bottom line?• 70% want to collaborate or already are • Where can funders & DCC help more?

Questions?

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