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Please briefly describe the other reason(s) for initiating RDM services. N=17
Area of research interest on the part of our data librarian.
Broadly built collections that have data as well as other content. Institutional initiative for supporting research data.
Developing trend among peer institutions.
Enable the success of graduates by providing data management resources and training.
In addition to NSF, other funding agencies requiring data management plans. Also, these data services are a natural
extension to the support that the library already provides to the research community.
Institutional history for archiving research data.
Invitation to collaborate with our Sponsored Programs and research administration office on campus
Librarians established a data management working group in the summer of 2008 to begin educating themselves about
data management in response to a couple of requests from faculty for help in this area. We were well positioned then to
step up our efforts when the NSF announced the gist of its DMP requirement in the fall of 2010. Our most recent five-
year plan for the library has been being formulated over the last year and data issues have made a major appearance
therein, partly as a result of our participation in the e-science institute and two university task forces on formulating
institution-wide policies for data management. These three initiatives together have highlighted that the campus has a
LOT of offices offering data management services and solutions, which have grown up gradually without an institutional
administrative initiative to support research data services, but the institutional administrative initiative now is to better
coordinate services, make researchers aware of their existence and protect the university from liability issues that might
arise from not adequately managing data.
Library strategic direction.
Our associate university librarian at the time was a visionary in terms of DRM and initiated a broad range of services,
including hiring new non-librarian technical staff.
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