Courtney E Matthews

Evolution of Data Creation, Management, Publication, and Curation in the Research Process

Sharing research data and scholarship is of national importance because of the increased focus on maximizing return on the U.S. governments investment in research programs. Recent government policy changes have directly affected the management and accessibility of publically funded research. On January 18, 2011, the National Science Foundation, a U.S. agency that supports research and education in nonmedical fields, required that data management plans be submitted with all grant proposals. On February 22, 2013, the U.S. Presidents Office of Science and Technology Policy extended a similar requirement for all federal agencies with research and development budgets of more than

Opportunities and Challenges of Data Publication: A Case Study from Purdue

100 million. These requirements illustrate the need for further coordination and management of data as scholarship with traditional publications. Purdue University Libraries and its Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) collaborated to develop a comprehensive work flow that links technical report production with the management and publication of associated data. This paper illustrates early initiatives to integrate discrete data publications with traditional scholarly publications by leveraging new and existing repository platforms and services. The authors review government policies, past data-sharing practices, early pilot initiatives, and work flow integration between Purdues data repository, the traditional press, and institutional repository. Through the adoption of these work flows, the authors propose best practices for integrating data publishing and dissemination into the research process. The implementation of this model has the potential to assist researchers in meeting the requirements of federal funding agencies, while reducing redundancy, ensuring integrity, expanding accessibility, and increasing the return on research investment.

Publication Integration at Purdue: A Comprehensive Publication Workflow for Traditional Publications and Data Publications

Beginning in 2011, there have been several policy changes directly affecting the management, preservation, and accessibility of publically funded research and resulting research data in the United States. On January 18, 2011 the National Science Foundation (NSF) required data management plans to be submitted with all grant proposals (National Science Foundation, 2013). On February 22, 2013, the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the President of the United States extended a similar requirement to all federal agencies that have a research and development budget of more than

LINKING DATA TO TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH

100 million (Holdren, 2013). These requirements illustrate the need for further coordination and management of data as scholarship and traditional scholarship in integrated publishing solutions. The case study presented in this paper will illustrate an early initiative at Purdue University to integrate discrete data publications with traditional scholarly publications through leveraging new and existing repository platforms and services (Zilinski, Scherer, Bullock, Horton, & Matthews). Examination of the case study will involve a discussion of workflow integration between Purdue’s data repository, the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR); its traditional press, the Purdue University Press (PUP); and the institutional repository, Purdue e-Pubs. Publications and Data: Changes in Public Policy Changes in Public Policy There have been several recent policy changes directly affecting the management, preservation, and accessibility of publically funded research and resulting research data in the United States. In March 2002, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shared a draft statement on sharing research data and invited comments on the statement. In February 2003, the NIH finalized their statement on research data, stating all investigator initiated applications with direct costs greater than

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): An institutional data management service with a virtual research environment, data publication, and archiving

500,000 in any single year will be expected to address data sharing in their application (National Institutes of Health, 2003). Furthermore, in 2008, the NIH released its Public Access Policy which requires funded research papers to be publically accessible on PubMed Central (National Institutes of Health, 2008). In January 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) required data management plans to be submitted with all grant proposals (National Science Foundation, 2013). In February 2013, the OSTP of the President of the United States extended a similar requirement to all federal agencies that have a research and development budget of more than

Collection Development in the Context of Research Data

100 million (Holdren, 2013). Currently, agencies are crafting their responses to this memo and are asking for feedback from their communities. These requirements illustrate the need for further coordination and management of data as scholarship and traditional scholarship in integrated publishing solutions. Case Study: Purdue Libraries and the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) A Service Model of Collaboration Purdue recognized the early need to develop distinct repositories that were focused on the specific and unique needs of content ranging from archival materials, traditional institutional repository materials, and data. With this in mind, Purdue created three distinct institutional repositories: e-Archives, the traditional archival repository; Purdue e-Pubs, the traditional institutional repository; and the Purdue University