CLIR Publishes "Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects" | Benzinga

"The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has published 'Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects.' The report examines how research institutions are responding to data management requirements of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies. It also considers what role, if any, academic libraries and the library and information science profession should have in supporting researchers' data management needs. The report documents what institutions are doing to create data management policies or provide practical support for researchers, what approaches are being developed at regional and national scales, how professional schools are preparing to meet the challenge of data management, and research ethics and the problems of data sharing. University of North Texas (UNT) Library Director Martin Halbert opens the report by discussing the DataRes Project, a two-year investigation of data management practices conducted at UNT with colleagues Spencer D. C. Keralis, Shannon Stark, and William E. Moen. His introduction is followed by four papers that were presented at a symposium on data management that UNT organized in December 2012 ..."