I'm an Institution - what can I do to support my open scientists?
Evaluate how well your institution supports research data management
The CARDIO tool helps institutions:
- collaboratively assess data management requirements, activity, and
capacity at your institution
- build consensus between data creators, information managers and
service providers
- identify practical goals for improvement in data management provision
and support;
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identify operational inefficiencies and opportunities for cost saving;
- make a compelling case to senior managers for investment in data
management support
CARDIO offers a short quiz as well as an in-depth tool for managers and support staff working in institutions.
Find out what your researchers needs are.
Make them aware of funder policies in your country.
In the UK, the Digital Curation Centre have produced lots of useful information on funder policies:
Funder's data management policies tend to require researchers and their institutions to provide statements on the following, as summarised by the DCC.
- Published outputs: a policy on published outputs e.g. journal articles and conference papers
- Data: a datasets policy or statement on access to and maintenance of electronic resources
- Time limits: set timeframes for making content accessible or preserving research outputs
- Data plan: requirement to consider data creation, management or sharing in the grant application
- Access/sharing: promotion of OA journals, deposit in repositories, data sharing or reuse
- Long-term curation: stipulations on long-term maintenance and preservation of research outputs
- Monitoring: whether compliance is monitored or action taken such as withholding funds
- Guidance: provision of FAQs, best practice guides, toolkits, and support staff
- Repository: provision of a repository to make published research outputs accessible
- Data centre: provision of a data centre to curate unpublished electronic resources or data
- Costs: a willingness to meet publication fees and data management / sharing costs
Providing training on research data management.
JISC have funded projects to address research data training (two phases):
Support 'data management planning' during the project proposal process.