SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 51
IRs with Data
Five-year pilot project of Scholars Portal. No charges for members of Ontario Council of University Libraries.
One-time charge model based on the data set size, per file.
We are developing a business model that will grant researchers a fixed amount of storage space (e.g., 5 GB) for free.
After that, projects/researchers will be charged on a per meg basis. We do not yet have a figure for the per meg cost.
We have a limit on the size of files we can accept and we’re grappling with how long we can keep deposits. Data
archiving is so much more complex than other kinds of digital curation that we are just now testing what can be
archived, but we planned from the start that our IR would include data sets. We would like to begin charging for long-
term preservation of data at some point, but our library is not designated as a chargeback center on campus, so we are
currently unable to charge at this time.
We plan cost recovery by establishing ourselves as a cost center, per OMB A-21.
Data Archives
Services are based on cost recovery. The funding mechanisms vary depending on who the data owners are.
The cost is 2% of total direct cost of grant, though if someone has data from a completed project that they would like to
archive, we would explore funding models with them to pay for archiving that data.
Too early to share costs. We are still working towards understanding our costs for both our in-house services as well as
several of the partnership initiatives that we are involved with.
Under review.
25. What are the current or anticipated sources for the data in your data archive? Check all that apply.
N=40
Source of Data IRs with Data
(N=35)
Data Archives
(N=5)
Total
(N=40)
%of
Total
Data directly associated with a particular publication 30 5 35 88%
Data associated with a full research project (e.g., all
processed data for an NSF grant)
29 5 34 85%
Data from graduate research, dissertations, or theses 30 2 32 80%
Data moved from another archive to the library data archive
or IR
22 3 25 63%
Other data source 5 1 6 15%
Please briefly describe any other data source(s). N=6
IRs with Data
Data from long-term faculty research archives. This is especially the case with humanities researchers who travel around
the world, sharing often the only other copies of primary materials. These archives were once on paper and microfilm
and often eventually found homes in library special collections. We are working with the same for digital materials and
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