Research data management

• Published in: Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 103; no. 3; pp. 154 - 156
• Main Authors: Surkis, Alisa, Read, Kevin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Medical Library Association 01.07.2015; University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
• Subjects: Biomedical Research - methods; Data collection; Database Management Systems - organization & administration; Drug dosages; Humans; Information management; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Interviews; Knowledge Management - statistics & numerical data; Librarians; Libraries - organization & administration; Library associations; Library collections; Medical libraries; Methods; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Of Interest; Research data management; Researchers; United States
• ISSN: 1536-5050; 1558-9439; 1558-9439
• DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.103.3.011

Librarians have begun to provide a range of services in this area and now teach data management to researchers, work with individual researchers to improve their data management practices, create data management subject guides, and assist in supporting funding agency and publisher data requirements. The data from such an experiment might be composed of: (1) a folder filled with MRI image files or perhaps multiple folders, each filled with MRI images for an individual study participant; (2) data about treatment timing and dosage stored in spreadsheets or possibly in paper forms; (3) spreadsheets of processed data, tumor size for our example; and (4) final analyzed data used to create a figure for publication.