92 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
FUTURE PLANS FOR RDM SERVICES
If your library is currently offering RDM services, please answer the following questions about any plans your library has to offer
additional services, or make staffing or funding changes in the future.
If your library is NOT currently offering RDM services, but plans to, please answer as many of the following questions as possible at
this time.
56. Please indicate which, if any, of the research data management (RDM) services below your library
plans to offer but has not yet implemented, and when they are anticipated to begin. Check all
that apply. Do not check boxes for services your library currently offers (which would have been
indicated in prior questions). N=56
RDM Services Within
1 year
Within
2 years
Within
3–5 years
No current
plans
N
Services to support ongoing research (e.g., back-up
planning)
11 16 2 14 43
Other online resources for research data management
besides DMP preparation
20 15 0 6 41
Research data archiving 17 13 6 5 41
Training sessions on DMP preparation and/or other data
management topics
15 11 3 4 33
Online resources related to Data Management Plans for NSF
proposals or other funding agencies
20 5 0 7 32
Direct assistance/consulting with researcher for DMP
preparation
13 10 3 5 31
Other RDM service(s) 8 3 0 8 19
Total Responses 40 29 7 23 56
Please briefly describe the Other RDM service(s). N=11
Within 1 year
Although we are able to support data archiving in our institutional repository, we plan to develop a data repository in
the future.
Dataviz tools and guidance (tentative)
Expand archiving in the local data repository
Metadata creation and related quality control
More robust data curation services
Provide metadata for computational data that can be harvested from the repository. Systematically contact faculty with
current grants to offer metadata and archiving services for research data.
FUTURE PLANS FOR RDM SERVICES
If your library is currently offering RDM services, please answer the following questions about any plans your library has to offer
additional services, or make staffing or funding changes in the future.
If your library is NOT currently offering RDM services, but plans to, please answer as many of the following questions as possible at
this time.
56. Please indicate which, if any, of the research data management (RDM) services below your library
plans to offer but has not yet implemented, and when they are anticipated to begin. Check all
that apply. Do not check boxes for services your library currently offers (which would have been
indicated in prior questions). N=56
RDM Services Within
1 year
Within
2 years
Within
3–5 years
No current
plans
N
Services to support ongoing research (e.g., back-up
planning)
11 16 2 14 43
Other online resources for research data management
besides DMP preparation
20 15 0 6 41
Research data archiving 17 13 6 5 41
Training sessions on DMP preparation and/or other data
management topics
15 11 3 4 33
Online resources related to Data Management Plans for NSF
proposals or other funding agencies
20 5 0 7 32
Direct assistance/consulting with researcher for DMP
preparation
13 10 3 5 31
Other RDM service(s) 8 3 0 8 19
Total Responses 40 29 7 23 56
Please briefly describe the Other RDM service(s). N=11
Within 1 year
Although we are able to support data archiving in our institutional repository, we plan to develop a data repository in
the future.
Dataviz tools and guidance (tentative)
Expand archiving in the local data repository
Metadata creation and related quality control
More robust data curation services
Provide metadata for computational data that can be harvested from the repository. Systematically contact faculty with
current grants to offer metadata and archiving services for research data.
