Browsing by Subject "Research -- Management"

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    Building data services from the ground up: Strategies and resources
    (Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2014) Coates, Heather L.
    There is a scarcity of practical guidance for developing data services in an academic library. Data services, like many areas of research, require the expertise and resources of teams spanning many disciplines. While library professionals are embedded into the teaching activities of our institutions, fewer of us are embedded in activities occurring across the full research life cycle. The significant challenges of managing, preserving, and sharing data for reuse demand that we take a more active role. Providing support for funder data management plans is just one option in the data services landscape. Awareness of the institutional and library culture in which we operate places an emphasis on the importance of relationships. Understanding the various cultures in which our researchers operate is crucial for delivering data services that are relevant and utilized. The goal of this article is to guide data specialists through this landscape by providing key resources and strategies for developing locally relevant services and by pointing to active communities of librarians and researchers tackling the challenges associated with digital research data.
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    Building the Future of Research Together: Collaborating with a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)-Funded Translational Science Institute to Provide Data Management Training
    (2014-05-19) Coates, Heather L.
    Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) - funded institutes with respect to data management training and support. Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projects to serve the long tail of research data. Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations. Conclusions: Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
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    Developing incentives for data stewardship and sharing: Library engagement beyond liaison relationships
    (2014-06-05) Coates, Heather L.; Polley, David E.
    Many of the obstacles slowing the adoption of more democratic dissemination of scholarly products are cultural, not technological. While libraries have extended their technological capacity to new methods of dissemination, we have been less proactive in fostering the cultural change necessary for significant adoption. Two particular groups of constituents and communities of practice have been engaged with the library profession, but the personal contact between faculty and librarians at the institutional level is inconsistent and often hinges upon liaison relationships. This poster will describe opportunities for librarians to engage with institutional units and research communities extending beyond institutional boundaries to advance incentives rewarding new forms of dissemination, including data as a valued community resource. Examples of relating changes in dissemination to various community missions will be provided.
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    E-science and libraries (for non science librarians)
    (2011-11) Snajdr, Eric
    Information Technology is rapidly changing the world of scientific research. We have entered a new era of science. Some call it e-science, while others call it the 4th paradigm of science. Scientists, with the aid of technology, are continually amassing larger and more complex datasets. These data are accumulated are at an ever-accelerating rate. How will this information be organized? What, if any of it should be preserved for future use? How will it be preserved? If it is preserved, how will it be made publically accessible? The NSF and others describe the solving of problems such as these as some of the major challenges of this scientific generation. They also state that tackling these problems will take expertise from many fields, including library and information science. A recent movement of this new era of science is an increasing requirement for scientists to archive and make their research data public. For example, the National Science Foundation (as of January 18, 2011) is requiring scientists to articulate how they will accomplish these goals within data management plans that must be submitted with each grant proposal. What role can libraries play in this new realm of science? What role are libraries already playing? Several libraries have taken the lead in initiating efforts in assisting scientists with a variety of data management needs. This presentation will include a brief overview of the current trends as well as possible future directions in librarianship that this new era of science may lead.
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    Ensuring research integrity: The role of data management in current crises
    (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2014-12) Coates, Heather L.
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    From Cultural Heritage to Research Innovations: Digital Scholarship Services for a Changing University
    (http://research.iupui.edu/events/researchday2013/documents/b4.pdf, 2013-04-05) Odell, Jere D.; Johnson, Jennifer; Coates, Heather L.
    Digital technologies are changing the character of research, scholarship and education. While some may see these changes as a threat to business as usual, others see opportunities to build stronger universities, healthier learning communities and more equitable access to knowledge and information. The Program of Digital Scholarship provides the tools and services to help the IUPUI community develop both innovative and proven projects supported by the University Library. The Program of Digital Scholarship provides the IUPUI community with a variety of services and tools for sharing and managing their digital scholarly assets including but not limited to: published articles, white papers, conference presentations, images, artifacts, reusable learning objects, theses and dissertations, historic texts, datasets, and multimedia files. By providing open access to digital resources, these services contribute to IUPUI’s success as an innovative, urban university. In this poster, we describe four use cases in which faculty or community groups have collaborated with the Program of Digital Scholarship to build and share 1) the cultural heritage of central Indiana, 2) published works of faculty and student scholarship, 3) journals published at IUPUI, and 4) data management plans for grant-funded research. In each case, the Program of Digital Scholarship improved the dissemination of education, research and culture while raising the standards for preservation, usability, and accessibility.
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    Improving data management in academic research: Assessment results for a pilot lab
    (2014-05-19) Coates, Heather L.
    Common practices for data collection, storage, organization, documentation, sharing, re-use, and preservation are often suboptimal. Issues often arising from common data practices include data loss, corruption, poor data integrity, and an inability to demonstrate the provenance (i.e., the origin) of the data. Ineffective data management can result in data that are unusable for re-use and re-analysis. However, effective data management practices exist to support data integrity, interoperability, and re-use. These practices maximize the value and potential impact of any particular dataset. In light of the gap between common practice and known effective strategies, we developed an intensive lab curriculum to train students and research support staff in implementing these strategies. This lab addresses the lack of formal data management training available on our campus and targets key processes in the data life cycle, promoting strategies that facilitate generation of quality data appropriate for re-use.
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    Librarian roles in data curation
    (2013-01-28) Coates, Heather L.
    This presentation is aimed at SLIS students and practicing academic librarians interested in learning more about data curation and the potential roles for librarians in this emerging field. Throughout, background information and relevant literature are discussed in terms of pragmatic librarian knowledge and expertise. Specific topics addressed include the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and organizations involved in research, the activities that take place across the research life cycle, as well as opportunities for librarians to fill existing service and expertise gaps.
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    Promoting sustainable research practices through effective data management curricula
    (2015-03-27) Coates, Heather L.; Muilenburg, Jenny; Whitmire, Amanda L.
    Managing research data effectively is critical to producing high quality datasets that support data preservation, sharing, reuse, and reproducible research. Academic librarians are increasingly playing a role in providing training and education in data management (DM) for faculty and students. While emerging data management curricula are converging on a common set of topics covered, expected learning outcomes, instructional materials, techniques and strategies still vary widely. This wide variability in DM instructional approaches largely reflects the similarly broad variety of audiences for the material, and the instructors offering it. The audience for DM instruction includes graduate students, faculty and research support staff from all disciplines, liaison librarians, data specialists and many others. Instructional methods range from online modules and coursework, workshops, and credit-bearing courses. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching data management, so having a familiarity with the variety of teaching models and methods currently being used is very helpful in designing a teaching strategy that is targeted to your audience. Librarians from three public research universities will describe their developing DM teaching programs, including a credit-bearing graduate course, a workshop series for librarians, and a workshop series for graduate students, research support staff, and investigators. In support of establishing best practices for data management instruction, we will describe successes and challenges in delivery, retention, and customizing materials for particular audiences. We will also compare instructional design, activities, and assessment approaches to identify common, effective strategies across all three. We will invite the audience to guide the panel discussion through a series of group polls.