eScience in Action
Authors: Lisa R. Johnston (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) , Jake R. Carlson (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) , Patricia Hswe (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) , Cynthia Hudson-Vitale (Washington University in St Louis) , Heidi Imker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) , Wendy Kozlowski (Cornell University) , Robert K Olendorf (Penn State University) , Claire Stewart (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Objective: Many academic and research institutions are exploring opportunities to better support researchers in sharing their data. As partners in the Data Curation Network project, our six institutions developed a comparison of the current levels of support provided for researchers to meet their data sharing goals through library-based data repository and curation services.
Methods: Each institutional lead provided a written summary of their services based on a previously developed structure, followed by group discussion and refinement of descriptions. Service areas assessed include the repository services for data, technologies used, policies, and staffing in place.
Conclusions: Through this process we aim to better define the current levels of support offered by our institutions as a first step toward meeting our project's overarching goal to develop a shared staffing model for data curation across multiple institutions.
Keywords: digital repositories, research data management (RDM) services, institutional repositories, academic libraries, scholarly communications, data curation
How to Cite: Johnston, L. R. , Carlson, J. R. , Hswe, P. , Hudson-Vitale, C. , Imker, H. , Kozlowski, W. , Olendorf, R. K. & Stewart, C. (2017) “Data Curation Network: How Do We Compare? A Snapshot of Six Academic Library Institutions’ Data Repository and Curation Services”, Journal of eScience Librarianship. 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2017.1102