Browsing by Subject "research data sharing"

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    Expanding the table: The role of library data professionals in data governance
    (2022-03-16) Goben, Abigail; Coates, Heather L.; Briney, Kristin
    As research data management and sharing has become ubiquitous, the need for data governance — coordinated decision-making around research data across all levels of an institution — has come to the forefront. Data governance is needed to address immediate and changing issues such as emerging funder policies as well as the ongoing challenge of researchers leaving an institution. Data governance often falls under the purview of information technology units. However, this technocentric approach may conflict with the values and real world aims of university research, resulting in policies and practices that create additional barriers. Due to the traditionally hierarchical nature of research institutions, there is a need for broader engagement and representation in governance structures. Currently, data governance typically reflects the priorities and perspectives of those who are white, able-bodied, and male. While this is evolving, there is a specific need to identify and include the communities who have been previously excluded from decision-making and to ensure their participation in order to anticipate potential governance problems across a range of scenarios. Due to their familiarity with working across disciplines and throughout their organizations and expertise in areas like data sharing and preservation, library data professionals should be key partners in data governance processes. At our institutions, each of us has observed common challenges and witnessed the need for more participatory data governance practices. Seeing these issues, as librarians working with data, we’ve raised our voices and used our established credibility to bring together the disparate groups and to ensure library expertise is utilized when policy and practice decisions are being made. This presentation will explore current challenges in research data governance stemming from the dominant technocentric approach. We seek to extend the conversation and to identify opportunities for our community to advance more transparent and collaborative data governance practices.
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    NIH Data Management and Sharing Session 2: Practitioner Perspectives: Internal Outreach and Policy
    (2022-02-22) Coates, Heather L.
    The webinar introduces the basics of data management and the new requirements for data management and sharing (for NIH funded research) that will be in place beginning in 2023. This webinar will provide “practitioner perspectives” – i.e., data librarians sharing their opportunities, barriers, methods, and successes as they work toward improving data management practices at their institutions.
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    Open Access is necessary but not sufficient to ensure research integrity
    (2022-10-27) Coates, Heather L.
    This interactive session will explore the central role of open access to publications, data, instruments, protocols, code and/or scripts in fostering a culture of research integrity and public trust in research. Through discussion of contemporary investigations into misconduct, we will consider the interconnectedness of good data practices and open access with principles of research integrity. In particular, we will discuss concrete practices related to project management, data management, and training that enable validation, foster a culture of research integrity, and support greater openness in the conduct of research and dissemination of research outputs.
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    Practitioner Perspectives: Infrastructure
    (2022-04-26) Contaxis, Nicole M.; Coates, Heather L.
    The webinar introduces the basics of data management and the new requirements for data management and sharing (for NIH funded research) that will be in place beginning in 2023. This webinar will provide “practitioner perspectives” – i.e., data librarians sharing their opportunities, barriers, methods, and successes as they work toward improving data management practices at their institutions.
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    Shifting into Data Governance roles: Encounters of three data librarians
    (2022-06-10) Goben, Abigail; Coates, Heather L.; Briney, Kristin
    As research data management and sharing has become ubiquitous, the need for data governance — coordinated decision-making around research data across all levels of an institution — has come to the forefront. Data governance is needed to address immediate and changing issues such as emerging funder policies as well as the ongoing challenge of researchers leaving an institution. Data governance often falls under the purview of information technology units. However, this technocentric approach may conflict with the values and real world aims of university research, resulting in policies and practices that create additional barriers or disincentivize unconventional processes. Due to the traditionally hierarchical nature of research institutions, there is a need for broader engagement and representation in governance structures. Currently, data governance typically reflects the priorities and perspectives of those who are white, able-bodied, and male. While this is evolving, there is a specific need to identify and include the communities who have been previously excluded from decision-making and to ensure their participation in order to anticipate potential governance problems across a range of scenarios. Due to their familiarity with working across disciplines and throughout their organizations and expertise in areas like data sharing and preservation, library data professionals should be key partners in data governance processes. At our institutions, each of us has observed common challenges and witnessed the need for more participatory data governance practices. Seeing these issues, as librarians working with data, we’ve raised our voices and used our established credibility to bring together the disparate groups and to ensure library expertise is utilized when policy and practice decisions are being made. This presentation will describe how three data librarians have engaged with data governance and identified opportunities to advance more transparent and collaborative data governance practices.
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    University Library: Recommended generalist data repositories for sharing research data
    (2024-08-09) Coates, Heather L.
    This resource was created to help IU researchers choose a generalist data repository when data- or domain-specific data repositories are not available. Adapted from the Harvard Biomedical Repository Matrix at https://zenodo.org/records/10651775.