Sharing research data to improve public health: A joint statement of purpose
A group of major international funders of public health research have committed to work together to increase the availability of data emerging from our funded research, in order to accelerate advances...
View ArticleFigShare: publish all your data
Sarah Jones, 5 August, 2011“It’s amazing what you can accomplish as a diversion to your PhD.” This was Les Carr’s opening gambit as the questions started for Mark Hahnel of FigShare after he presented...
View ArticleIncentivising Data Management and Sharing
The next Research Data Management Forum, the seventh in the series, is set to tackle the challenging theme of how best to incentivise researchers so that they will be motivated to manage and share...
View ArticleNew DCC guide to citing datasets
The DCC has released a guide entitled 'How to cite datasets and link to publications'.Read more
View ArticleIncentivising data sharing
Sarah Jones, 4 November, 2011The theme for #rdmf7 was incentivising data management and sharing. We had an impressive line up of speakers, matched by an equally exciting and engaged audience. Front...
View ArticleResearcher perspectives at #idcc11
Kevin Ashley, 7 December, 2011 Summary of presentations in the researcher perspectives session at #idcc11Give Researchers Credit for All of Their Research Mark Hahnel, FigShare, Digital Science...
View ArticleTools for data management planning
Sarah Jones, 12 December, 2011The DCC ran a workshop at IDCC which brought together the teams that have developed the UK and US data management planning tools: DMP Online and DMP Tool. The workshop...
View ArticleDeveloping institutional data policies: trend for 2012
Sarah Jones, 22 December, 2011The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often...
View ArticleNew year, new responsibilities
UK universities are increasingly developing strategies for research data management. In some cases new posts are created and in others responsibility is assigned to existing IT teams, libraries and...
View ArticleDeveloping a roadmap for RDM
Sarah Jones, 16 February, 2012We trialled a new session at the Loughborough roadshow on developing data policy and services. This ended with an excerise on producing an RDM roadmap, as the EPSRC...
View ArticleNavigating the potholes
Sarah Jones, 7 March, 2012As part of our series of blog posts on developing RDM roadmaps, this week we're reflecting on what a roadmap looks like and where HEIs have most work to do.Read more
View ArticleTurning roadmaps to action
Angus Whyte, 19 March, 2012Many UK Higher Education Institutions are setting out their 'roadmap' of actions to support research data management, to meet a deadline set by funding body EPSRC. Prompted...
View ArticleReflections on data sharing
Michael Day, 3 July, 2012The findings of the Researchers of Tomorrow study have challenged assumptions that researchers of the generation born between 1982 and 1994 would be naturally more 'connected'...
View ArticleRDM training for librarians
Details of a 3 hour training session for librarians developed in collaboration with the University of Northampton as part of the Institutional Engagement programme. The course slides and handbook are...
View ArticleNew Checklist for a Data Management Plan
We received lots of feedback that we should shorten the DCC Checklist for a Data Management Plan and have managed to condense it to 13 questions and some basic administrative information. More detailed...
View ArticleCustomising DMPonline
We've been developing some guidelines on how to customise DMPonline for your institution. This news item tells you how to get started and provides the guidelines and spreadsheet that you need to...
View ArticleAn exchange of experience on managing research data
Kevin Ashley, 9 December, 2013On 18 November 2013, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine organised a two hour seminar for support staff interested or involved in RDM developments. The...
View ArticleGuest blog: Ethics and research data management in arts, humanities and...
Kevin Ashley, 16 June, 2015Dr Swijghuisen Reigersberg is a Visiting Fellow at the Music, Mind and Brain Centre, Psychology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London developing research into Music,...
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