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IFLA Volume 42 Number 4 December 2016 IFLA Contents Special Issue: Research Data Services Guest Editors: Michael Witt and Wolfram Horstmann Guest Editorial International approaches to research data services in libraries 251 Michael Witt and Wolfram Horstmann Articles Modifying researchers’ data management practices: A behavioural framework for library practitioners 253 Susan Hickson, Kylie Ann Poulton, Maria Connor, Joanna Richardson and Malcolm Wolski Research data services: An exploration of requirements at two Swedish universities 266 Monica Lassi, Maria Johnsson and Koraljka Golub ‘Essentials 4 Data Support’: Five years’ experience with data management training 278 Ellen Verbakel and Marjan Grootveld Research Data Services at ETH-Bibliothek 284 Ana Sesartic and Matthias To¨we Beyond the matrix: Repository services for qualitative data 292 Sebastian Karcher, Dessislava Kirilova and Nicholas Weber Data governance, data literacy and the management of data quality 303 Tibor Koltay Data information literacy instruction in Business and Public Health: Comparative case studies 313 Katharine V. Macy and Heather L. Coates Abstracts 328 Aims and Scope IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. To submit an article to IFLA Journal please visit: http://ifl.sagepub.com IFLA Journal Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ISSN 0340-0352 [print] 1745-2651 [online] Published 4 times a year in March, June, October and December Editor Steve Witt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Main Library, MC – 522 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL, USA. Email: [email protected] Editorial Committee Barbara Combes, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia. 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IFLA Guest Editorial International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2016, Vol. 42(4) 251–252 International approaches to research ª The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permission: data services in libraries sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0340035216678726 ifl.sagepub.com Michael Witt Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Wolfram Horstmann Go¨ttingen State and University Library, University of Go¨ttingen, Germany Libraries and archives around the world are acquiring Alliance for the 81st IFLA World Library and Infor- new skills and applying the principles of library and mation Congress in Cape Town in 2015. The number archival sciences to solve challenges and provide new and quality of manuscripts submitted in response to services related to research data management. Librar- the call for papers enjoined the expansion from one ians are helping researchers address needs throughout special issue to two and the allowance of some addi- the research data lifecycle, for example, by conduct- tional time for reviewing and editing. ing assessments and outreach, consulting on data Major themes that emerged from the submissions management plans and metadata, incorporating data include the assessment of researcher needs and prac- into information literacy instruction and collection tices, training for librarians, examples of different management, providing reference services to help data services and approaches to designing and offer- patrons find and cite data, and providing data publi- ing them, and data information literacy. The papers cation and preservation solutions. They are creating are presented in this order as a sensible progression web guides and tutorials, training colleagues within that many libraries are undertaking themselves: to and outside of the library, contributing to discussions identify patron needs related to research data, then learn related to research data including policy development the skills required to help meet their needs, then design and planning, and in some cases, participating directly and offer services, and lastly assist patrons in using with researchers on data-intensive projects. the services and related resources. The degree to which libraries are offering or plan- In this issue, researchers were interviewed at Grif- ning to offer data services has been explored in detail fith University in Australia with the application of the for member organizations of the Association of Col- A-COM-B conceptual framework to better under- lege and Research Libraries in North America by stand researcher behaviors regarding research data Tenopir et al. (2012, 2015) and more recently for and related practices. Their results suggest that atti- LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothe`ques Europe´ennes de tude is the key element to be addressed in designing Recherche) in Europe (Tenopir et al., 2016); however, strategies to support researchers in data management. these studies only begin to paint a part of the picture in Librarians at two Swedish universities extended the terms of the variety of services that libraries around Data Curation Profile instrument and used it in inter- the world are designing and deploying. And how are viewing researchers from a variety of different disci- they creating and providing these services? plines to explore their needs for effective data This is the central motivation for the next two spe- management, in particular for subject control and cial issues of IFLA Journal: to gather the latest theory, other requirements for descriptive metadata. In the research, and state-of-the-art practices from libraries Netherlands, the ‘Essentials 4 Data Support’ taught that are informing and innovating effective data ser- vices from an international perspective. The idea for this theme was inspired by the high level of atten- Corresponding author: dance and interest in a conference program on the Michael Witt, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, topic of research data and libraries that was created IN 47907, USA. in collaboration with IFLA and the Research Data Email: [email protected] 252 IFLA Journal 42(4) data support skills to over 170 Dutch librarians and broader range of countries and libraries. It is our hope information technology professionals. Learning out- that these two issues will add to our shared under- comes are achieved by either a six-week blended standing of the latest developments and practices of course of in-person and coached online course, or libraries that are designing and providing research an online course that is accompanied by coaching, data services. or a self-directed online-only course. Two papers present examples of data services: ETH-Bibliothek Declaration of Conflicting Interests in Switzerland