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research data management

Delivering Research Data Management Services
Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones and Angus Whyte, editors

Research Data Netherlands partnership launched
Today 3TU.Datacentrum and Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) announced that they are launching the partnership Research Data Netherlands. With this coalition, which is open to other parties as well, the two data archives are joining forces in the area of sustainable data archiving.

Joy and I have just run a webinar organised by the Higher Education Libraries group of LIASA (Library and Information Association of South Africa). It was amazingly well-attended, with close to 100 participants representing virtually all of the 23 universities in South Africa and the National Research Foundation. We definitely need to take promotion tips from LIASA HELIG!
We spoke on four topics:

The DCC is pleased to announce a number of new resources. The latest guide in our How-to series is:
How to Develop RDM Services - a guide for HEIs
The guide draws lessons from the Jisc Managing Research Data programmes and the DCC institutional engagements to outline the process of developing RDM services. It proposes eight components or processes to be supported:

The DCC is pleased to release a case study on the improvement of Research Data Management at Monash University. We're very grateful to Sam Searle, Anthony Beitz, Wilna Macmillan and Andrew Harrison for their input to this.
The case study accompanies our forthcoming How to guide on developing RDM infrastructure and services. It acts as an example of how one institution has addressed the various activities and components that need to be delivered.

DCC research data management roadshow, Dundee
5-6 December 2012
Library and Learning Centre, University of Dundee

Registration for the Dundee roadshow is now open!
The event takes place on 5-6 December in the Library and Learning Centre, University of Dundee.
Further information, including a draft programme, is available on the event page.
Register here to join us in Dundee!

This introductory guide to the tools and services available through the DCC will allow IT managers to begin identifying the support they need, not only from the DCC but also from other stakeholders at their institution. By working through the 5 steps IT managers will be able to establish the strengths and weaknesses of the services they currently offer and work towards offering the Research Data Management service increasingly demanded by institutions and researchers.

UK universities are increasingly developing strategies for research data management.

The University of Hertfordshire has released a data management policy.
Section 7 is on research data management specifically, and an appendix provides practical data management guidance for researchers.
Details are available on our institutional data policies list.

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