Dear All,
As many of you will already know EPSRC set out its research data
management (RDM) expectations for institutions in receipt of EPSRC grant
funding in April 2012, this included the development of an institutional
‘Roadmap’. EPSRC assessment of compliance with these expectations will
begin on 1 May 2015 for research outputs published on or after that date.
In order to comply with EPSRC expectations and to implement the
University’s RDM Policy, the University of Edinburgh has invested
significantly in RDM services, infrastructure (incl. storage and
security) and support as detailed in the University of Edinburgh’s RDM
Roadmap.
In an effort to gauge the University of Edinburgh’s ‘readiness’ in
relation to EPSRC’s RDM expectations, we are conducting a short survey
of our EPSRC grant holders.
The survey aims to find out more about researcher awareness of those
expectations concerning the management and provision of access to
EPSRC-funded research data as detailed in the EPSRC Policy Framework on
Research Data (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/).
We aim to conduct follow-up interviews with EPSRC grant holders who are
willing to talk through these issues in a bit more detail to help shape
the development of the RDM services at the University of Edinburgh.
We will endeavour to make available some of our findings shortly. In the
meantime, if you want to use or refer to our survey we have posted a
‘demo’version below:
https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/epsrc-expectations-awareness-demo
Should you decide to make use of our survey, let us know, as we can
potentially share our data with each other to benchmark our progress.
As an aside Oxford University have crafted a useful data decision tree
for EPSRC-funded researchers at Oxford.
See url:
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/files/2014/05/Data-archive-decision-tree_FINAL-with-ORA-DATA-loop-closed.pdf
Regards,
Stuart Macdonald
RDM Services Coordinator
University of Edinburgh
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t: 0131 650 3304
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