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Practices of research data curation in institutional repositories: A qualitative view from repository staff

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  • Dong Joon Lee
  • Besiki Stvilia

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The importance of managing research data has been emphasized by the government, funding agencies, and scholarly communities. Increased access to research data increases the impact and efficiency of scientific activities and funding. Thus, many research institutions have established or plan to establish research data curation services as part of their Institutional Repositories (IRs). However, in order to design effective research data curation services in IRs, and to build active research data providers and user communities around those IRs, it is essential to study current data curation practices and provide rich descriptions of the sociotechnical factors and relationships shaping those practices. Based on 13 interviews with 15 IR staff members from 13 large research universities in the United States, this paper provides a rich, qualitative description of research data curation and use practices in IRs. In particular, the paper identifies data curation and use activities in IRs, as well as their structures, roles played, skills needed, contradictions and problems present, solutions sought, and workarounds applied. The paper can inform the development of best practice guides, infrastructure and service templates, as well as education in research data curation in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools.

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  • Dong Joon Lee & Besiki Stvilia, 2017. "Practices of research data curation in institutional repositories: A qualitative view from repository staff," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(3), pages 1-44, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0173987
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173987
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    1. David Scherer & Daniel Valen, 2019. "Balancing Multiple Roles of Repositories: Developing a Comprehensive Repository at Carnegie Mellon University," Publications, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-24, April.
    2. Besiki Stvilia & Dong Joon Lee & Na‐eun Han, 2021. "“Striking out on your own”—A study of research information management problems on university campuses," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(8), pages 963-978, August.
    3. Dong Joon Lee & Besiki Stvilia & Seungyeon Ha & Douglas Hahn, 2023. "The structure and priorities of researchers' scholarly profile maintenance activities: A case of institutional research information management system," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 74(2), pages 186-204, February.
    4. Besiki Stvilia & Shuheng Wu & Dong Joon Lee, 2018. "Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research information management systems," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-24, February.

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