Title:
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REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH DATA REPOSITORY: A CASE STUDY |
Author(s):
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Fidan Limani, Arben Hajra, Mexhid Ferati and Vladimir Radevski |
ISBN:
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978-989-8704-14-6 |
Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Boyan Bontchev and Pedro IsaĆas |
Year:
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2020 |
Edition:
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Single |
Keywords:
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Research Data, Institutional Repository, Research Data Management |
Type:
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Full |
First Page:
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51 |
Last Page:
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58 |
Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The changing research culture poses new requirements on research communities across disciplines. The availability of
different research outputs requires appropriate infrastructure in order to publish and recognize them as research
contributions. Institutional repositories (IR) provide such support for research outputs generated as part of the research. In
this work, we conduct a survey to assess the research data management activities and services for an IR at a university
setting. The survey results show an increasing presence of research data (RD) as well as a need for an IR component to
support it for the participating communities. The survey reveals that common practices among researchers are to save data
into spreadsheets, text documents, and relational databases, which they manage personally without any institutional
support. Most of them store this data on a personal computer or portable storage drives. Despite these storing practices,
which are not optimal for sharing, most participants have a need of sharing their data, and they do it mostly using email
attachments. The survey also reveals features that repositories should provide, mostly RD creation- and
dissemination-related activities, but also covering those that relate to backup and access-granting. |
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