Data Management Plans – plan ahead now
An important component of research data management is a sound data management plan (DMP). It is good practice to have one at the start of any research project, but even more so, many funders now require a DMP…
An important component of research data management is a sound data management plan (DMP). It is good practice to have one at the start of any research project, but even more so, many funders now require a DMP…
The UK Data Service are running a series of webinars to get you up and running with data management and with finding and using UK Data Service data: Introduction to the UK Data Service, 24 April 2018, 15.00 – 16.00 BST…
This week the University Library completed a long overdue update of our online journal hosting platform, run on the popular Open Journals System software. We are now running on version 3 of the software, which brings…
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 is fast approaching. If your research involves working with people or data about them, then this new framework for legal and ethical…
Alex Voss from the School of Computer Science and Anna Clements and Eva Borger from the University Library have been awarded funding by OCLC for a 1-year project titled “Characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in…
In our last post to mark Love Data Week 2018 we summarise the work done towards the deposit of data underpinning theses. It is almost a year ago that the Research Data Management (RDM) team began work on a process for…
In our third post to mark Love Data Week 2018 we will talk about what the RDM team have been up to during the past years. The RDM team was formed in May 2015 as a response to the EPSRC policy on research data and with…
Our second post to mark Love Data Week 2018 is a contribution by Anne-Marie Weijmans and Vivienne Wild from the School of Physics and Astronomy. This is their data journey as astronomers: As astronomers we face an…
The first in our series of posts to mark Love Data Week 2018 comes from Dr Fiona Cox, Research Fellow in the School of Geography & Sustainable Development. We asked Fiona about her data journey: What type or types of…
Happy Love Data Week! This week, we are planning to mark Love Data week 2018 (http://lovedataweek.org/) by publishing a number of blog posts about data and data management in St Andrews. Watch this space to hear about…