Meldung: Data Sharing: Experten fordern Forschungsdatenmanagement als festes Element universitärer Curricula

[From Google's English] "High Level Expert Panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Policy the status quo and perspectives in the field of economic and social science research data management - Panel, organized by ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Council for Social and Economic Data, calls "culture of sharing" Kiel / Hamburg / Berlin, 10 September 2013: Expert panel recommends integration of research data management in the curricula of universities for young researchers. Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and of the Council for Social and economic data in the past week at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Policy, the renowned German economic trade organization, in Dusseldorf - discussed the issue at the initiative of the ZBW. demands, research data, which usually are collected publicly funded, also other researchers to make available, often remain without result. Even if research funders such as the DFG or large scientific societies such as the Association for Social Policy plead for more data exchange among researchers, provide only very few scientists their data other for effective reuse available. This is the result of the expert panel on research data management, the 6September 2013 took place at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Policy in Dusseldorf.discussed on the panel, moderated by ZBW Director Klaus daughter man • Jutta Günther (Institute for Economic Research) • Gert G. Wagner (RatSWD / DIW Berlin), • Peter Winker (eds. the magazine "Yearbooks of Economics and Statistics") and • Stefan Winkler-Nees (German Research Foundation). , the panel of experts calls for more "culture of sharing". This could be created primarily by increased awareness of the importance of data documentation and sharing of data at the level of researchers. To provide incentives for documentation and "Open Data" is the citation of data is of central importance. The subject of research data management should be integrated as a fixed element of academic work in the university curricula to the panelists view. At the level of infrastructure, however, there are some initial successes have been achieved, particularly in the establishment of institutional research data centers in major research institutes or universities. But at the same time is still lacking, particularly for smaller or third-party funded projects in economics and social sciences a way to store collected data in a data repository, and to be supported in the storage of data. Here, however, could help to address the issue by means of innovative and discipline-specific) solutions currently launched programs of the DFG and other research funders. was organized panel discussion by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and RatSWD together on the DFG project EDaWaX ( European Data Watch Extended) work. The event was part of the annual meeting of the Association for Social Policy at the University of Dusseldorf. Via the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics: The ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world's largest information center for economic literature with a national contract - both online and offline. The facility is home to about 4 million volumes and 26,000 current periodicals. In addition, the ZBW probably the fastest growing collection of open-access documents on the Internet: DSpace, the digital publication server, it currently has about 50,000 open access articles and working papers. With EconBiz, the search engine for international economic scientific information, students or scientists / interior can be searched in more than 9 million records. The ZBW publishes two periodicals economic policy economy and Intereconomics and operates together with the Institute for the World Economy (Kiel Institute) that is designed according to the principle of Open Access peer-reviewed journal Economics.The ZBW is part of the Leibniz Association and since 2007 public foundation. The ZBW in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for their innovative library work awarded with the international LIBER Award. Via the RatSWD: The Council for Social and Economic Data Forum () is an independent body of empirically-working scientists from universities, colleges and other institutions independent scientific research as well as representatives of important data producers. It was established in 2004 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with the aim to improve research data infrastructure for empirical research sustainable and will contribute to its international competitiveness. The RatSWD has become institutionalized as a place of exchange and mediation between the interests of science and data producers and fulfills an important role as a communication and coordination platform. The RatSWD takes in the social, behavioral and economic sciences in relation to standard setting and quality assurance as well as the further development of the research data centers an initiating and quality assurance role"