Category Archives for Research Data Management
Scaling Research Data Management Services Along the Maturity Spectrum: Three Institutional Perspectives
Research data services promise to advance many academic libraries’ strategic goals of becoming partners in the research process and integrating library services with modern research workflows. Academic librarians are well positioned to make an impact in this space due to … Continue reading
Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research information management systems
This article examined how researchers participated in research information management systems (RIMSs), their motivations for participation, and their priorities for those motivations. Profile maintenance, question-answering, and endorsement activities were used to define three cumulatively increasing levels of participation: Readers, Record … Continue reading
Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs
This qualitative research study examines librarians’ research data management (RDM) experiences, specifically the factors that influence their ability to support researchers’ needs. Findings from interviews with 36 academic library professionals in the United States identify 5 factors of influence: 1) … Continue reading
Understanding the implications of Open Citations – how far along are we?
In recent years, we have seen the launch of many innovative discovery search engines, such as Yewno, Semantic Scholar, Meta, Open Knowledge Maps. But in terms of citation indexes, we see the offical launch of 2 new comprehensive citation indexes … Continue reading
Digital Science Report Reveals Potential Behind Blockchain Technology for Scholarly Communication and Research
New report considers the developments and varying perspectives of blockchain technology and its possible impact on the academic arena. Read More
Merged expertise, mutual benefits: Using a cross-disciplinary, same-campus research team to investigate academic libraries
Academic librarians have provided support to research teams on their campuses for many years. The main types of support discussed in the library literature include literature searching, citation management, data management, and information literacy instruction. Supporting research teams has been … Continue reading
Strategic open data preservation: Roles and opportunities for broader engagement by librarians and the public
The June 2017 ACRL/SPARC Forum at the ALA Annual Conference focused on recent efforts to build cooperative programs to ensure persistent access to open data, including science data provided by the U.S. federal government. Data Rescue events, inaugurated at the … Continue reading
The Realities of Research Data Management Part Two: Scoping the University RDM Service Bundle
This report explores the nature of the RDM capacity acquired by four research universities in four different national contexts, highlighting key factors that shaped the contours of this capacity, and providing 13 key takeaways that provide useful starting points for … Continue reading
Empty rhetoric over data sharing slows science
Governments, funders and scientific communities must move beyond lip-service and commit to data-sharing practices and platforms. Read More
Hacking the Literature Review: Opportunities and Innovations to Improve the Research Process
This article proposes a methodical, reproducible, three-stage process that harnesses the power digital tools bring to the research cycle, regardless of the user’s preferred platform or operating system. Focusing just on the literature review phase, we develop a conceptual framework, … Continue reading