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Please identify the other institutional unit(s). N=15
Academic Health Center IT related departments, Minnesota Supercomputing center, Office for the commercialization of
technology
Belfer Audio Archive (part of library’s Special Collections)
Center for Computational Science: this is a separate department from central IT
College and departmental IT groups
Data Coordinating Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Departmental or school IT
Departments/institutes on campus
Institute for Social and Economic Research, Center for Advanced Computing, University Statistical Consulting Unit,
Computational Biology Service Unit, Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, Copyright Information
Center, Office of the University Counsel
Institutes, laboratories, other data producers on campus
Institutional repository
Professional school libraries (i.e., school of medicine, law school)
School of Information Science
Statistical Consulting, Survey Research Consulting, High Performance Computing (housed in a research center)
TACC
The Odum Institute, RENCI, DICE
53. Has your library partnered with external institutions or groups to provide RDM services? (By
“partnering” we refer to a more formalized collaboration of people and projects outside of
your institution, in contrast to referring patrons to external institutions such as to science data
repositories.) N=51
Yes 13 26%
No 38 74%
If yes, please identify the partner(s) and briefly describe the nature of the partnership. Address
what has made the partnership successful and/or challenging. N=13
A number of services/tools such as the Data Curation Profiles (http://datacurationprofiles.org), Databib (http://databib.
org), and DMPTool (http://dmptool.org) are some examples of collaboration outside of our institution. The software we
have been developing for PURR is in collaboration with the HUBzero Foundation.
California Digital Library and several members of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, for the DataCite/EZID service for our
repositories. Successful coordination to achieve a lower cost for the service by signing up as a group.
Please identify the other institutional unit(s). N=15
Academic Health Center IT related departments, Minnesota Supercomputing center, Office for the commercialization of
technology
Belfer Audio Archive (part of library’s Special Collections)
Center for Computational Science: this is a separate department from central IT
College and departmental IT groups
Data Coordinating Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Departmental or school IT
Departments/institutes on campus
Institute for Social and Economic Research, Center for Advanced Computing, University Statistical Consulting Unit,
Computational Biology Service Unit, Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, Copyright Information
Center, Office of the University Counsel
Institutes, laboratories, other data producers on campus
Institutional repository
Professional school libraries (i.e., school of medicine, law school)
School of Information Science
Statistical Consulting, Survey Research Consulting, High Performance Computing (housed in a research center)
TACC
The Odum Institute, RENCI, DICE
53. Has your library partnered with external institutions or groups to provide RDM services? (By
“partnering” we refer to a more formalized collaboration of people and projects outside of
your institution, in contrast to referring patrons to external institutions such as to science data
repositories.) N=51
Yes 13 26%
No 38 74%
If yes, please identify the partner(s) and briefly describe the nature of the partnership. Address
what has made the partnership successful and/or challenging. N=13
A number of services/tools such as the Data Curation Profiles (http://datacurationprofiles.org), Databib (http://databib.
org), and DMPTool (http://dmptool.org) are some examples of collaboration outside of our institution. The software we
have been developing for PURR is in collaboration with the HUBzero Foundation.
California Digital Library and several members of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, for the DataCite/EZID service for our
repositories. Successful coordination to achieve a lower cost for the service by signing up as a group.
