SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 89
Motivating outreach librarians to have research conversations with faculty.
Subject librarians do not see this as part of their job and do not participate. We are trying to slowly engage them with
LibGuides and workshops.
Institutional Commitment
Institution-wide leadership on RDM issues is lacking.
Institutional support: We have reached out to the Office of Research Development and are building relationships there.
This is an ongoing effort that is tied into both the staffing and infrastructure challenges that we face.
Lack of institutional and administrative support
Lack of institutional priority
Faculty Education
Developing workshops for faculty and researchers, could develop general workshops for faculty, but may be more
effective to contact colleges. Contact colleges asking to attend a department head’s meeting where we present data
management services and offer to provide workshops for faculty in that department. Planning on developing videos that
faculty can view at any time.
Development of a culture of data management, curation and preservation. Raising faculty awareness of issues,
opportunities, challenging, IP, access (open vs closed), ethical use, rewards, attribution, citation.
Educating/knowledge of faculty in understanding data management
Finding time for the boot camp was during spring break.
Mainstreaming data: understanding the implications of RDM as core library service. (also Faculty engagement)
Evaluating Demand
Development of a service in the absence of demonstrated need on the part of researchers. The e-science working group
was formed to help address this.
Finding out about DMPS already submitted. Working on a library policy on DMP deposits by successful awardees and
have worked with Office of Research on acquiring DMPs provided by PIs (also Collaboration campus-wide)
Gathering data on data management to assess the need for assistance by researchers. The e-science working group has
drafted a survey and enlisted the support of the vice president for research. (also Scoping service)
Getting a university-wide data management policy that is clear and has teeth.
Participating on assessment of faculty computing needs. Able to insert wording in a final report on need to go beyond
addressing faculty data storage needs to address data management, curation, preservation/archiving, and discovery.
(also Scoping services)
Policy
Silo nature of policies and budgets at university level (also Funding)
Scaling Services
Identifying the limitations of the envisioned services (also Scoping services)
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