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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy that began in 2008 requires that final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts sponsored by the agency are freely available in PubMed Central. NIH requires that researchers who apply for grants must include a PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing their papers that were...
Exposing research data from traditional repository systems such as DSpace in Linked Data has numerous benefits such as increasing visibility, prompting open access, and interlinking datasets with elements such as authors. For a successful implementation, it is crucial to preserve object structure (e.g., hierarchical and related) in Linked Data in...
Students often struggle with the appropriate use of scholarly sources. Underlying this skill set are complex concepts: scholarship is a conversation, the scholarly community has its own unique perspectives and biases, not all scholarly information is equally credible or appropriate for all situations. This session will address how we discuss...
This study aims to examine how people read and interpret scientific information, and how they respond to graphs and other data. It can be more broadly applied to help patients better understand information and statistics about certain disease conditions, such as cancer risk and diabetes treatment plans. One approach to...