Better data management, one nudge at a time

• Published in: IASSIST quarterly Vol. 45; no. 2
• Main Authors: Orlowska, Daria, Fallaw, Colleen, Feng, Yali, Garza, Livia, Hetrick, Ashley, Imker, Heidi, Luong, Hoa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology 26.09.2021
• Subjects: community engagement; data management; Data Nudge; research data service; service promotion; subject librarians

How do you help people improve their data management skills? For our team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, we decided the answer was "one nudge at a time”. A study conducted by Wiley and Mischo (2016) found that Illinois researchers are aware of data services available but und...