Much has been written about researcher's data management and data sharing practices and needs. The published studies show that researchers have an awareness of the data sharing mandates and policies of federal grant agencies and journal publishers and there is a growing acceptance of the intrinsic value of data sharing albeit with some concerns and caveats. However, establishing an effective and consistent data management service presents challenges for libraries, given the known disciplinary differences in data management needs and the fact that faculty have not yet significantly changed their data management practices to conform to federal agency and publisher mandates. After conducting in-depth interviews with twenty-one engineering and atmospheric science faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, it became clear that scientists and engineers view the research lifecycle as a holistic endeavor and treat data as one of many necessary elements in the scholarly communication workflow. The generation, usage, storage, and sharing of data are part of the integrated scholarly workflow, and are not necessarily wholly separate processes.
Building on these interviews, the authors have developed an instructional and training program that better focuses on integrating data management activities focusing on research and scholarly communication processes. The goal of our project was to examine data management practices in the context of researcher scholarly workflow needs and behaviors and develop and implement an instructional program that addresses researcher data needs. The development and assessment of this program is underway.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4234-9836
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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William Mischo is Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center and Professor, University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He has been a Principal Investigator on a number of digital library grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including the National Ethics Portal grant, several National Science Digital Library (NSDL) grants, and the Digital Library Initiative I grant. He has also received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant, and several Andrew Mellon Foundation grants. Bill has published some 70 articles and conference papers in the field of library and information science and has presented at more than 75 national and international conferences, including at ALA, SLA, the NSDL Annual meeting, Internet Librarian International, LITA National, and ASEE annuals. He served on the NSDL Policy Committee from 2003 to 2006. In 2001, Bill received the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division and he was the recipient of the 2009 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology from the American Library Association and OCLC. In 2015, he was elected as an AAAS Fellow.
Engineering Research Data Services Librarian
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3145-4828
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Mary C. Schlembach is Chemistry & Physical Sciences Librarian and Associate Professor, University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has been on a number of digital library grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including the National Ethics Portal grant, and the Digital Library Initiative I grant. She has published many articles and conference papers in the field of library and information science and has presented at national and international conferences, including at ALA, SLA, Internet Librarian International, QQML, and ASEE annuals.
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