** Apologies for cross-posting**

Dear Colleagues,

JoRD (Journal Research Data Policy Bank) is a JISC funded initiative conducting a feasibility study into the scope and shape of a service to collate and summarise journal policies on Research Data. Such a service could provide researchers, managers of research data and other stakeholders with a central source of reference to understand and comply with these policies.

The project has just launched an online survey aimed at researchers. The survey is part of the stakeholder consultation phase of the project and aims to gauge researcher opinions/practices concerning research data, data sharing, the policies of journals, and thoughts on the shape of such a service.

The results of the survey will allow us to build a picture of researcher needs and will help inform recommendations made by the report.

To begin, please click the survey URL below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZVP5ZS

Please feel free to distribute the survey link to anyone whom you feel may be relevant.

The closing date for the survey is Sunday 04^th November.

More information on the JoRD project and our findings so far can be found on the project blog (https://jordproject.wordpress.com/).

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Jane H Smith

BSc (hons), MSc, MCLIP

SHERPA Services Development Officer

(RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR & JoRD)

Tel: 01159514341

Centre for Research Communications

Greenfield Medical Library

Queens Medical Centre

University of Nottingham

NG7 2UH

CRC http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/

RoMEO www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

JULIET www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

OpenDOAR www.opendoar.org