The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey of Internet Archive and co-chair of the NDSA Innovation Working Group. In this edition of the Insights Interview series we talk with Meghan Banach Bergin, Bibliographic Access and Metadata Coordinator, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Meghan is the author of a Report on Digital Preservation Practices […]

Academic research libraries are quickly developing support for research data management (RDM), including both new services and infrastructure. Here, we tell the stories of how eight different universities have developed programs of RDM support, focusing on the prominent role of the library in educating and assisting researchers with managing their data throughout the research lifecycle. Based on these stories, we construct timelines for each university depicting key steps in building support for RDM, and we discuss similarities and dissimilarities among universities in motivation to provide RDM support, collaborations among campus units, assessment of needs and services, and changes in staffing.

Faculty are clueless and IRs suck at promoting themselves. WHOODATHUNKIT.

Name/Title: Jarrett M. Drake, Digital Archivist Responsibilities: As the digital archivist at Mudd, I’m responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of processes that facilitate t…

There is a lot of pressure on university libraries to start offering research data services; I am sure that on some days every librarian try...

Berkeley Electronic Press Selected Works

It’s here, and I have to say it came quicker than I expected – the first big stick for researchers – the PLoS data sharing policy. What this policy means for researchers is that i…

Yet another needs assessment.

Goes after the "domain knowledge" thing by asserting that "interactional expertise" (the knowledge you pick up from immersion that lets you speak Their Language) generally suffices.

New consortium(?) for academic digital preservation(?). Keep an eye on it.

Final report to the University Libraries in fulfillment of the 2013 President's Excellence in Leadership program.

From knowledge to information to metadata in your DAM, the role of the librarian is often neglected. Our two experts will give you examples of why librarians a…

Shows how to use the AIDA toolkit for assessing institutional capabilities to support digital asset management. It was given as part of module 1 of a 5-module …

Jennifer Vinopal is the Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives at New York University, where she helps scholars bring their work online for preservation, curation, and more and more frequently, collaboration. She talked with Library Journal about how the face of digital scholarship is changing, what role librarians play in that change, and how the partnerships between researchers and librarians are growing closer in the new research landscape.