期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2014
卷号：40
期号：4
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Academic libraries offer a wide-range of research data services. We consult on data management plans, educate students and faculty on the best practices for organizing, storing and maintaining long-term access to digital data (and in some cases, provide that long-term access), and we advocate for better, user-centered services and campus collaborations in support of all the disciplinary units that we serve. But now we must do more. Last year the Office of Science Technology Policy in the White House signaled a renewed interest in making the results of federally funded research more publicly accessible – no small feat. For example, at the University of Minnesota, federally funded projects account for over 68% of the several hundreds of millions of grant dollars received in 2012. Therefore, all of the digital research data generated from these grant dollars would need to be publically accessible for search, retrieval and analysis in the near future. Researchers already have options to fulfill these requirements such as figshare or data journals; however, it may be in the best interests of academic libraries to provide our own brand of support, lest the expensive digital data assets of our institutions be forgotten on unreliable publisher websites or in start-up disciplinary repositories with no plans for sustainability.
