Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues

It has occurred to me for a while that there is a large disconnect between what the scientific community says is true and what the general public believes.  This has been borne out in a new study from the Pew Research Center.  The results of this study have been released on their website: which you can access here.

'Paying It Forward' Publishing

February 10, 2015

By Carl Straumsheim

The University of California Press is building a new open-access publishing model around the idea that reviewers and researchers in the hard sciences can support new forms of scholarly communication by "paying it forward."

The university press last month introduced Collabra and Luminos, an open-access journal and monograph publisher, respectively...  To read more

From Inside Higher Ed, https://www.insidehighered.com, accessed February 10, 2015

Virtual Conference on Scientific Data Management

Mark your calendars for February 18th to participate in a virtual conference - "Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth"  The cost of participation in this professional development opportunity is being covered by UK Libraries.

This NISO virtual conference will explore many current and up-and-coming aspects of research data management, including:

·         Data management practice meets policy

·         Uses for the data management plan

·         Building data management capacity and functionality

·         Citing and curating datasets

·         Connecting datasets with other products of scholarship

·         Changing researchers’ practices

·         Teaching data management techniques

A complete schedule of the sessions may be found at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/sci_data_management/

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

• Keynote Address – Laura J. Biven, Ph.D., Senior Science and Technology Advisor, Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science, US Department of Energy
• Research Data Curation - Jennifer Doty, Research Data Librarian, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
• Data Management Best Practices – Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
• DART Project: Data Management Plans as a Research Tool – Amanda L. Whitmire, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Data Management Specialist, Oregon State University Libraries & Press
• Building Data Management Capacity – Heidi Imker, Ph.D., Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• FORCE11 – Dr. Melissa Haendel, Assistant Professor, Ontology Development Group, OHSU Library, Department of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University
• The RMap Project – Sheila M. Morrissey, Senior Research Developer, Ithaka 
•  The Open Science Framework – Andrew Sallans, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Funding, Center for Open Science
• Roundtable Discussion

The various sessions run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We have scheduled the Active Learning Classroom  - WTYL 2-34A for the event.

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Let's Get This Party Started!

Managing research data is important - very important!  I find, however, as I speak to researchers around campus, what they really want to do is their research.  Messing with the intricacies of managing their research data is really not what they want to do. I know, go figure!  Researchers are now being required to submit data management plans with their research proposals, but often they see this as a "check this off the list" kind of activity that they must do right as they prepare to submit the application.  What many would really like is a standard boilerplate two page plan that they can append to their application.  As requirements become  more stringent, and as peer reviewers and program officers become savvier, it becomes more important for researchers to be more careful and more diligent. Additionally there are new requirements for sharing the results of federally funded research.  This adds another level of complexity to the process.

This space will be a place to highlight new developments, tools, services, and training to assist researchers in meeting this challenge.  Let's do it!