WEBINAR: Research Data Services

WEBINAR: Research Data Services Survey

Join the conversation: #RDSsurvey

Main Speaker

Carol TenopirUniversity of Tennesseectenopir@utk.edu

Moderating

Birgit SchmidtGoettingen State and University Librarybschmidt@sub.uni-goettingen.de

Rob GrimErasmus University Rotterdamgrim@ubib.eur.nl

Center for Information and Communication Studies

Research Data Services in European Libraries: Current Offerings and Plans for the Future

Carol TenopirUniversity of Tennessee

Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki

LIBER Survey Builds on Previous DataONE Library Surveys

Library Baseline (2010)

Follow-up for comparison (2014)

Citations: 72

Citations: 51,269 downloads (published Dec 2015)

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LIBER Survey Responding Libraries

Survey Respondents

North: 19%

East: 17%West: 51%

South: 13%

LIBER Academic Library Membership

West: 53%East: 16%

South: 17%

North: 15%

Key Findings

1. LIBER academic libraries offer and are planning a range of Research Data Services, but…

…Consultative RDS are most common…Fewer libraries offer technical RDS

2. There are some regional differences

3. Libraries use a variety of strategies for developing staff skills

1. LIBER academic libraries offer and are planning a range of Research Data Services

RDS offered by most libraries currently

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

RDS offered continued

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Technical

Technical

Currently offered and future plans for consultative-type services

Currently offered and future plans for technical-type services

2) There are some regional differences

Regional differences - Libraries in North and West are more likely to be:

▪Currently training colleagues on RDS▪Discussing RDS with others▪Collaborating with other RDS providers▪Active in policy development and strategic planning for RDS

Regional differences - Libraries in South and West are more likely to be:

▪Active in consulting with academic staff or students about data management plans and metadata standards▪Identifying datasets for deposit▪Creating or transforming datasets and metadata

3) Libraries have a variety of strategies for developing staff skills

Have you hired staff for RDS in the last 12 months?

Has your library provided opportunities for library staff to develop skills related to RDS?

Which of the following opportunities has your library provided for library staff to develop skills related to RDS?

Staff Skills Development

Strategies

Collaborated with another institution to develop a skills-

based MOOC

Hired staff for projects (not permanent)

Moved staff from other support

unit [ITS]

Refocused an existing role

Dramatically increase the workload of

some poor individual librarian

Tools for RDS Education and Assistancehttps://www.dataone.org/education-modules

DataONE Education Modules

1. Why Data Management2. Data Sharing3. Data Management Planning4. Data Entry and Manipulation5. Data Quality Control and Assurance6. Data Protection and Backups7. Metadata8. How to Write Quality Metadata9. Data Citation10. Analysis and Workflows11. Legal and Policy Issues

Thank You!

▪Carol Tenopir-University of Tennessee

▪Sanna Talja-University of Tampere

▪Wolfram Horstmann- University of Gottingen▪Birgit Schmidt-

University of Gottingen▪Elina Late-University of

Tampere

▪Lynn Baird- University of Idaho

▪Robert Sandusky- University of Illinois-

Chicago▪Suzie Allard-University

of Tennessee▪Dane Hughes-University

of Tennessee▪Danielle Pollock-

University of Tennessee

Questions?

• Type your questions in the chat box.• Rob Grim (moderator) will select and pose

questions to Carol• Any unanswered questions will be

addressed by Carol in a blog, following the webinar

WEBINAR: Research Data Services

Thank You!Final Notes:

1. Survey - please tell us what you thought! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M8SVT6N

2. Raw Data underlying the RDS Survey https://zenodo.org/record/162174#.WCWk_S3hCCh

3. Report summarising RDS Survey http://libereurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LIBER_RDM_SURVEY_FINAL_MANUSCRIPT.pdf

We’ll email a link to the recording shortly.