Many libraries offer workshops on research topics such as data management and information organization for graduate students and faculty. We recommend that library workshops focus on teaching skills rather than principles or theories, especially if the goal is to improve data management practices. At Oregon State University Libraries, we have...
Objective: Best practices such as the FAIR Principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) were developed to ensure that published datasets are reusable. While we employ best practices in the curation of datasets, we want to learn how domain experts view the reusability of datasets in our institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU. Curation workflows...
Data Management Plans (DMPs) have been used in the last decade to encourage good data management practices among researchers. DMPs are widely used, preventive tools that encourage good data management practices. DMPs are traditionally used to manage data during the planning stage of the project, often required for grant proposals,...
In Spring 2019, a library team was asked to conduct this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in order to determine whether the repository could achieve certification as a trusted digital repository.
Who owns a dataset? Who gets to make decisions about a dataset? Librarians in a public research university developed a Data Usage Wizard, an open source tool that aims to engage students in learning about copyright in the context of decision making related to research datasets. Using the Wizard, students...
This presentation talks about 1) data repositories in general, what they are, how to select one, and characteristics of good data repositories. 2) Alternatives to data repositories. 3) ScholarsArchive@OSU as a data repository: who it is for, what is the deposit process, and how to prepare datasets for submission.
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These slides present a practice paper submitted to the International Data Curation Conference 2018, with the same title. Data Management Plans (DMPs) are one of the most widespread tool that has been used in the last decade to encourage good data management practices among researchers. DMPs are a preventive tool...