The Jisc Research Data Usage Metrics project recently held a project meeting to discuss possible future work in the emerging area of research data metrics. We saw a presentation from Cameron Neylon of Curtin University, which amongst other topics (including a fascinating section on defining a citation, which is covered on the project blog ) […]
Paul Stokes summarises what have we learnt from some recent workshops… The cost of Research Data Management (RDM) has been under our spotlight recently as part of the Research at Risk initiative. Most of us take it as read that making research data available for verification and reuse is a “good thing”. However, it is […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc, talks about the Horizon 2020’s Open Research Data Pilot. All European Commission (EC) Horizon 2020 funded projects must deposit their peer-reviewed publications to ensure Open Access. A subset of the funded projects are also required to take part in an Open Research Data Pilot, or can […]
Force2016 is being held this April from 17th -19th in Portland Oregon, it’s the latest Force11 meeting where the future of research communications and digital scholarship will be discussed. Force11 is a vibrant and international open community that discusses and develops new ways for knowledge creation, sharing and dissemination. It’s all about taking advantage of […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc talks about our latest guide on engaging researchers to manage better their data. We have recently published a guide on engaging your researchers with managing research data. It will be of interest to university researchers and research data management support staff, including those who are responsible […]
In the first of a series of blog posts from RDM Shared Service Pilot institutions Sarah Middle, Institutional Repository Manager, University of Cambridge, outlines their perspectives and motivations for wanting to be involved with the project The Jisc Shared Research Data Management Service pilot will allow institutions to work collaboratively with the aim of producing a […]
by Rob Johnson and Tom Parsons at Research Consulting Research data management (RDM) can be a controversial subject. From a policy viewpoint it seems a no-brainer that researchers should safeguard their work, avoid any embarrassing data loss and share their data freely. However, from a researcher and institutional perspective, these ambitions are far from straightforward. […]
The Jisc UK Research Data Discovery Service project is currently developing a discovery service that enables the discovery of UK research data (ensuring research data can be better used and the mechanisms to share it will be more efficient). If this meets university and researcher requirements the prototype (we hope!) could be taken forward as […]
Could an intelligent digital research assistant become a must-have tool for academic research and open scholarship? Could a next generation scholarly communications platform enable new forms of research outputs and new channels for dissemination? We would like to draw your attention to our set of Visions for our future Research and Development work in Jisc. […]
This blog post announces the results of the call for formal expressions of interest to be a pilot institution in Jisc’s research data management shared service and also announces an accompanying ‘Research Data Network’ to engage with interested institutions who are not part of the pilot. Pilot Institutions In October Jisc invited formal expressions of […]