Practices of research data curation in institutional repositories: A qualitative view from repository staff.

ABSTRACT: The importance of managing research data has been emphasized by the government, funding agencies, and scholarly communities. Increased access to research data increases the impact and efficiency of scientific activities and funding. Thus, many research institutions have established or plan to establish research data curation services as part of their Institutional Repositories (IRs). However, in order to design effective research data curation services in IRs, and to build active research data providers and user communities around those IRs, it is essential to study current data curation practices and provide rich descriptions of the sociotechnical factors and relationships shaping those practices. Based on 13 interviews with 15 IR staff members from 13 large research universities in the U

SUBMITTER: Lee DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5354423 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature