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Effective strategies for managing your research data (advanced session)
This course gives a brief recap on RDM and then covers managing personal and sensitive data in the context of the new GDPR legislation, why it is a Good Thing to share your data, and how to do this most effectively in terms of describing your data, deciding where to share it, and using licences to control how your data is used by others. You will even get to write your own Data Management Plan (DMP): these help you manage your data throughout a project and after it has ended and are increasingly required as part of a grant or fellowship application. You will also learn about the range of support services available to you within the University for managing your data
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Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions
Supporting good practice in Research Data Management (RDM) is challenging for higher education institutions, in part because of the diversity of research practices and data types across disciplines. While centralised research data support units now exist in many universities, these typically possess neither the discipline-specific expertise nor the resources to offer appropriate targeted training and support within every academic unit. One solution to this problem is to identify suitable individuals with discipline-specific expertise that are already embedded within each unit, and empower these individuals to advocate for good RDM and to deliver support locally. This article focuses on an ongoing example of this approach: the Data Champion Programme at the University of Cambridge, UK. We describe how the Data Champion programme was established; the programme’s reach, impact, strengths and weaknesses after two years of operation; and our anticipated challenges and planned strategies for maintaining the programme over the medium- and long-term
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Open Resources: Who Should Pay?
This blog is the first in a series of three which considers the perspectives of researchers, funders and universities in relation to the support for open resources, coordinated and written by Dr Lauren Cadwallader. This post asks the question: What is the responsibility of national funders to research resources that are internationally important
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Open Research Pilot case studies: research integrity and reproducibility
This is the third blog in our series marking the end of the Open Research Pilot (a two-year initiative involving University of Cambridge research groups, University Research Support, and Wellcome Trust’s Open Research Team). Professor David Savage tells the Research Support Team how he is concerned with how to improve and ensure research integrity and reproducibility
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Could Open Research benefit Cambridge University researchers?
This is a write-up of the discussions had during the “Improving the research process: discussing an ‘open research’ policy” event held by the Office of Scholarly Communication on the 8th of June 2016.
A corrected version of this write-up was added to this record on the 3rd of August 2016. A correction has been made to Alasdair Russell's affiliation
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Open Research Pilot project: reflections from the Research Support Team
In the fifth blog in the series from the end of the Open Research Pilot, the project’s latest Research Support team, Georgina Cronin, Dr Debbie Hansen and Dr Lauren Cadwallader, reflect on their individual contributions and thoughts about the pilot. The team’s knowledge and skills include those related to open access and research data management as well as general research librarian and scholarly communication support
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Open Research Pilot case studies: promoting greater openness in research
In the second blog in our series marking the end of the Open Research Pilot (a two-year initiative involving University of Cambridge research groups, University Research Support, and Wellcome Trust’s Open Research Team), Dr Laurent Gatto tells us about his group’s involvement with the project. His particular Open interests during this time have been how to influence the research community in general towards greater openness
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Open Research Pilot case studies: sharing all research outputs and future sustainability of data repositories
In this final blog from the researchers involved in the Open Research Pilot, the Jefferis group discuss their participation. During this time, their open interests have been focused particularly on how to share all outputs from the research process, and on issues around sustainability of data repositories into the future