SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 47
Only offered elsewhere
Center for Computational Science
Central IT offers a storage environment the Libraries and central IT are currently piloting a dedicated data curation
platform (Dataverse network) to experiment with other options.
College of Literature, Sciences and Arts
Colleges and departments
The museum of natural and cultural history maintains its own systems for fossils and other collections, and the library
has occasionally consulted with them about some of these data sets.
Various research centres run their own archiving systems. The library is working to offer a central spot for this data, but
are waiting on central IT to up capacity.
20. How does your library provide assistance to researchers for archiving research data? Check all that
apply. N=54
Assistance locating solutions at existing data repositories for particular research domains (for example,
directing sociology students to the ICPSR repository)
52 96%
Direct assistance with depositing data at the library’s or institution’s data archive 39 72%
Direct assistance with depositing data at a domain repository 26 48%
Assistance depositing data to a journal publisher 21 39%
Other data archiving assistance 4 7%
Please briefly describe the other type of data archiving assistance. N=5
Dataverse
Deposit into Chronopolis, a campus-managed service.
We are building a solution for data only.
We are currently developing infrastructure and more nuanced services to support these needs. We are also developing
several cross-institutional partnerships to provide data preservation infrastructure.
If you answered Yes or Library and elsewhere above, skip to the section Data Archive
Characteristics. If you answered Only offered elsewhere or Not offered, skip to the section on
Staffing: Organizational Structure.
Only offered elsewhere
Center for Computational Science
Central IT offers a storage environment the Libraries and central IT are currently piloting a dedicated data curation
platform (Dataverse network) to experiment with other options.
College of Literature, Sciences and Arts
Colleges and departments
The museum of natural and cultural history maintains its own systems for fossils and other collections, and the library
has occasionally consulted with them about some of these data sets.
Various research centres run their own archiving systems. The library is working to offer a central spot for this data, but
are waiting on central IT to up capacity.
20. How does your library provide assistance to researchers for archiving research data? Check all that
apply. N=54
Assistance locating solutions at existing data repositories for particular research domains (for example,
directing sociology students to the ICPSR repository)
52 96%
Direct assistance with depositing data at the library’s or institution’s data archive 39 72%
Direct assistance with depositing data at a domain repository 26 48%
Assistance depositing data to a journal publisher 21 39%
Other data archiving assistance 4 7%
Please briefly describe the other type of data archiving assistance. N=5
Dataverse
Deposit into Chronopolis, a campus-managed service.
We are building a solution for data only.
We are currently developing infrastructure and more nuanced services to support these needs. We are also developing
several cross-institutional partnerships to provide data preservation infrastructure.
If you answered Yes or Library and elsewhere above, skip to the section Data Archive
Characteristics. If you answered Only offered elsewhere or Not offered, skip to the section on
Staffing: Organizational Structure.
