faculty research support needs survey
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Defining the Libraries' Role in Research: A Needs Assessment Case Study
Michael CrumptonKathryn Crowe
UNC GreensboroLibrary Assessment Conference 2014
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Why survey?
• Assess faculty needs re: storing and sharing data
• Determine priorities and resources• Respond to federal and university policies for
data sharing
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What is research?
• Information recorded in any form, and includes any materials needed to validate research findings, such as laboratory notebooks, biological specimens, video, photographs, and environmental samples
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Collaborators
• University Libraries• Information Technology Services• Office of Research and Economic
Development
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Methodology
• Developed survey fall 2012• Tested late 2012 and early 2013• Distributed to all faculty, research and post-
doctoral staff (1,193)• 160 completed (13% response rate)
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Who responded
• 73% tenure track faculty• 38% had external funding
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Research Data Formats
Text Spread-sheet
PDF Statistical software
notes/sketches/
figures
Digital im-ages
Raw text data
Consent forms
Digital au-dio
Web
Number 147 113 91 89 82 75 70 62 61 54
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Top 10 Research Data Formats
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Document and Text Formats
Portable document format
Spreadsheet Text Hand-written notes/ sketches/ figures
Non-digital text Web
Number 91 113 147 82 30 54
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Document and Text Formats
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Visual Formats
Non-digital audio recordings
Digital audio Digital video CAD Digital images Artistic products
Number 7 61 46 4 75 22
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Audio/Video/Images Formats
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Science Specific
GIS Gene sequences or samples or specimens
Number NaN 15 9
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15
Science Formats
Number
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Storing data
• 68% use CD/DVD,USB, external hard drive• 58% use computer hard drive• 27% network file space• 28% cloud• Only 16% automatically generate backup files
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Sharing data
• 75% did not anticipate sharing data!• Use cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google
Docs)• CDs, file transfer
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Barriers to sharing
• Size of datasets• Confidentiality and copyright• Limited access to central storage on campus• Lack of knowledge about sharing - what can
be shared and how to do it• Compatibility across systems
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Data Management Plans
• 40% (of 97 respondents that currently have plans)
Required by IRB Required by the funding agency
Required by unit or Research Cen-
ter
Good practice Other
Number 47 39 8 64 10
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Reason for Data Management Plan
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Priorities for Support Query
• Best practices for developing a data management plans• Cost estimates for data storage and retrieval• Meeting data sharing or storage requirements • Storing data with third-party archives• Routine data storage & backup services• Tools for sharing research data• Digitizing data from older formats• Applying metadata to research data • Preparing data sets for public access • Data disposal/destruction• Other (please specify)
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Priorities for support (summary)
• Storage and backup• Meeting data storage and sharing
requirements• Data management plans
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Conclusions
• Storage and automatic backup greatest need• Assistance w/ sharing data 2nd greatest need• Most faculty back up data but are not
following best practices• Many faculty not aware of data sharing
requirements or assume final publication suffices
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Follow up
• Team wrote report and shared on campus• IT Services launched a hosting service and Box
Cloud storage• Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) provides
DMP assistance • Libraries and OSP collaborating on DMPTool
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Follow up, cont.
• Libraries provide social science data archiving through Odum Institute
• Liaisons visit key faculty and research staff• Liaisons provide advice on archiving and
preserving data• LibGuide will serve as a portal for campus
services• Training for liaisons and faculty
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Discussion: Libraries’ role with research?
• DMP consultation• Data management• Data
curation/preservation• Data literacy• Institutional
repositories• Research consultation
• Knowledge banks• Database and web
design• Digitization• Grant writing support• Open access support• Scholarly
Communication
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Questions?
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More information
• Reporthttp://tinyurl.com/pzab27y
• Mike Crumpton [email protected]• Kathy Crowe [email protected]