UK University data repositories Louise Corti Director, Collections Development and Producer Relations UK Data Service, University of Essex Workshop on Research Data Management Conference ‘Changing Landscape of Science & Technology Libraries’ Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar 2-4 March 2017 UK state of play • Significant Investment, pilots and support from Higher Education technology body, Jisc • Main driver: each institution that receives funding for Engineering Research Council must have a data catalogue! • Most Universities have: • Advisory and advocacy services • An institutional data policy • A functioning repository system • Librarians or research administrators assigned Jisc UK HEI RDM readiness, 2014 Software in use for Research Data Services Varied UK picture • Some early adopters for prestigious and wealthy institutions: Edinburgh, Bristol, Bath, Exeter • Smaller: Hertfordshire, Essex, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine • Progressive: Loughborough University of Bristol - mature • RDM Policy and Deposit Guidance • Data,bris managed by Research Data Service • DataCite DOIs assigned • Repository powered by open source CKAN • Builds on £2 million investment made in the Research Data Storage Facility, managed by the Advanced Computing Research Centre http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/ Exeter • OpenExeter pilot – library, IT and research support • Data Policy • Follow the Data – RDM assessment exercise • Exeter embeds – advocacy, governance, training • Technical Enabling – repository • Discuss Debate Disseminate workshops for PhDs • Speed data dating for researchers • Librarian immersion and training • Strategy – ‘Sneak training into lots of different places!’ • https://open.exeter.ac.uk/repository/ University of Hertfordshire • Small University – fairly new research profile • University Research Data Policy • Detailed guidance and RDM Toolkit • A-Z of RDM • Datasets@UHRA. Dspace archive • DOIs allocated http://www.herts.ac.uk/rdm/finishing/repositories University of Essex • Small but research-intensive University • Last University to get a repository! • 2-page 11 point Research Data Policy • Open Source Eprints data repository • My team contracted to develop and help populate it http://researchdata.essex.ac.uk/ Loughborough University Join up and interoperability of systems • Symplectic – a CRIS • Figshare for Institutions • Arkivum – storage and back up preservation service https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/rdm/tag/figshare/ Contact Louise Corti Collections Development and Producer Relations team UK Data Service University of Essex UK CO43SQ [email protected] .