Research data services

The paper reports on an exploratory study of researchers' needs for effective research data management at two Swedish universities, conducted in order to inform the ongoing development of research data services. Twelve researchers from diverse fields have been interviewed, including biology, cu...

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Published inIFLA journal Vol. 42; no. 4; p. 266
Main Authors Lassi, Monica, Johnsson, Maria, Golub, Koraljka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Hague Sage Publications Ltd 01.12.2016
Subjects
Academic libraries
Biology
Geography
Information services
Linguistics
Mass media
Metadata
Profiles
Psychology
Research data management
Researchers
Respondents
Sweden
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Summary:The paper reports on an exploratory study of researchers' needs for effective research data management at two Swedish universities, conducted in order to inform the ongoing development of research data services. Twelve researchers from diverse fields have been interviewed, including biology, cultural studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, linguistics, media and psychology. The interviews were structured, guided by the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit developed at Purdue University, with added questions regarding subject metadata. The preliminary analysis indicates that the research data management practices vary greatly among the respondents, and therefore so do the implications for research data services. The added questions on subject metadata indicate needs of services guiding researchers in describing their datasets with adequate metadata.
ISSN:0340-0352
1745-2651
DOI:10.1177/0340035216671963