Librarians as Partners in Collaborative Research Data Management.

While researchers are being asked to make data more widely available, in practice there are not enough resources (time, money, people, expertise) to make this happen in a way that can readily fold into a researcher’s workflow and ensure access, re-use, findability, and preservation.  Librarians have expertise that allows them to be collaborators in data management.  With expertise in metadata, search, and digital curation, librarians can improve the process of managing data sets to enable others to find, use, and cite it easily, and in such a way that is focused on long term access.  This talk will cover some data repository models that are currently under way, as well as tools to build data management plans, understand data workflow, and create metadata for discoverability.  Additionally, this will discuss services in place to assign DOI’s to datasets for standard practices of citing and tracking use of data, which leads to increases in citation rates and higher profiles for your research.