Hi Lindsey,
We've incorporated some wording in the standard emails that we use for open access, asking researchers about the dataset underpinning the publication. This has increased awareness and does not require any significant resourcing - once the standard emails are drafted, they are used for open access anyway. It is hard to quantify how many extra enquires this generated for our RDM team as we're starting to get very good engagement with some groups of researchers regardless of the OA emails.
We have also done a benchmarking exercise for EPSRC-funded papers for each of the first two years of the mandatory EPSRC data policy. This has involved checking every paper which cites EPSRC funding and which was published during the specified period and assigning it to one of the following categories:
Data citation present.
No data citation but supporting information available.
No data citation - experimental paper
No data citation - theoretical paper
Other.
This has allowed us to monitor how we're doing in getting the message out to EPSRC-funded researchers, and since the results can be filtered by discipline, we can use this analysis to better target training over the next year.
In terms of resource, each time the analysis has been done has required about 15 hours of research and another couple of hours for synthesis.
Best wishes,
Mary
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