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Data Management for Libraries : A Lita Guide, Paperback / softback Book

Data Management for Libraries : A Lita Guide Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices.

Data management is a new service area for many library staff, requiring careful planning and implementation.

This guide offers a start-to-finish primer on understanding, building, and maintaining a data management service, showing another way the academic library can be invaluable to researchers.

Krier and Strasser of the California Digital Library guide readers through every step of a data management plan byOffering convincing arguments to persuade researchers to create a data management plan, with advice on collaborating with researchersLaying out all the foundations of starting a service, complete with sample data librarian job descriptions and data management plansProviding tips for conducting successful data management interviewsLeading readers through making decisions about repositories and other infrastructureAddressing sensitive questions such as ownership, intellectual property, sharing and access, metadata, and preservationThis Lita Guide will help academic librarians work with researchers, faculty, and other stakeholders to effectively organise, preserve, and provide access to research data.

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