Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Special Issue: Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2025
JeSLIB is honored to publish a Special Issue highlighting works related to the Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2025. The JeSLIB Editors thank the guest editors, Jennifer Chaput, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Yijing Angel Tang, University of Colorado Boulder, Wei Zakharov, Purdue University, and Heather Charlotte Owen, University of Rochester, for their dedication and expertise in bringing together this special issue. We thank the RDAP community for their continued support and enthusiasm for JeSLIB and its mission to advance the theory and practice of librarianship focusing on services related to data-driven research and promoting high standards in peer review and open access. Congratulations to all the authors who contributed to make this - our eighth and largest RDAP Special Issue - a success!
Editorial
Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit
- Jennifer Chaput
- Yijing Angel Tang
- Wei Zakharov
- Heather Charlotte Owen
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Full-Length Papers
Investigating and Addressing the Needs of Research Support Staff
- Alissa Link Cilfone
- Jen Ferguson
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Building a lightweight dataset catalog in Digital Commons
- Claire Warner
- Amy Reese
- Marla Hertz
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The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications
- Bryan M. Gee
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Investigating Graduate Mentor Perspectives on Data Information Literacy and Stewardship in Undergraduate Engineering Research Projects
- Joreen Arigye
- Wei Zakharov
- Carla B. Zoltowski
- Sarah Sewell
- Senay Purzer
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Strengthening Data Management Systems: Insights from the Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Project's Institutional Pilots
- Matthew Murray
- Briana Wham
- Matthew Harp
- Matthew B. Carson
- Sara Gonzales
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Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data
- Deb McCaffrey
- Erin D. Foster
- Lev Gorenstein
- Tobin Magle
- Venice Bayrd
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The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives
- Cara Key
- Diana E. Park
- Jane Nichols
- Clara Llebot
- L. K. Borland
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eScience in Action
Identifying restricted data repositories supporting mediated access via data usage agreements
- Mary K. Oberlies
- Megan Potterbusch
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Building Open Qualitative Science with Open Curriculum
- Nathaniel D. Porter
- Sebastian Karcher
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Commentaries
Resilient by Design: Assessment Strategies for Data Services from RDAP 2025
- Rose Fredrick
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