We have a new MANTRA! Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; …Continue reading →

How open should your data be? The RECODE project is looking at open data policy for EU-funded research. I attended a workshop in Sheffield yesterday for a diverse stakeholder group of researchers, funders and data providers. …Continue reading →

New RDM post Research Data Management Service Coordinator  https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=018035 The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Research Data Management Service Coordinator to spearhead the development of a compelling user-shaped Research Data Management …Continue reading →

Green light for research data storage and management plans As published in IS BITS Magazine, Issue 7, Summer 2013 – We have received the go-ahead to proceed with our plans to establish a service for the secure storage, management, …Continue reading →

Open Access Information Sessions The other week I took my first trip down to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, based at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital.  I had been invited to give a presentation …Continue reading →

Open Access Summit a great success Organised by the Open Access Implementation Programme the Summit took place on 24 July in the Main Library. William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager at Glasgow was the guest speaker, …Continue reading →

Making research ‘really reproducible’ Listening to Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Columbia University, give the keynote speech at the recent Open Repositories conference in lovely Prince Edward Island Canada, I realised we …Continue reading →

Research Data Management: good news fit to print! Congratulations to Digital Curation Centre staffer Sarah Jones, who co-authored an article about UK University RDM initiatives with Jisc Programme Manager Simon Hodson in the Guardian Higher Education Network pages …Continue reading →

MANTRA shortlisted Research Data MANTRA (http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/) is a free, non-credit course designed for postgraduate students and early career researchers which provides guidelines for good practice in research data management. (Flickr Image by …Continue reading →

New RDM tools and services: awareness raising sessions The University is investing in a new research driven research data management (RDM) service to cover all the Schools/Research Institutes and Centres in three Colleges. This will allow researchers to …Continue reading →