The document outlines the efforts of the University of North Texas in promoting open access and data management through various initiatives, including the DataRes project, which aims to improve institutional responses to research data management needs. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration among stakeholders and the role of institutional policies in supporting data management plans. Key findings reveal that effective data management requires commitment from multiple departments and highlights the necessity of open access to foster transparency and public trust in research.

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3. Helping Faculty
Help Themselves
Open Access & Data Management Consulting
Across the Research Life Cycle
Spencer D. C. Keralis
Director for Digital Scholarship,
Research Associate Professor
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4. Background
• Open Access Initiative
• Research in Data Management Policy & Practice
Implementation
• Data Management Consulting

5. Open Access
• Scholarly Works Repository
• OA Policy
• The Denton Declaration

6. Institutional Repository
2,192 items
34,199 files
68,628 uses

7. UNT’s OA Policy
17.5 Open Access, Self-Archiving, and Long-
term Digital Stewardship for University of
North Texas Scholarly Works

8. The DataRes Project, funded by a Laura Bush
21st Century Librarians grant from the IMLS,
investigates how the library and information
science (LIS) profession can best respond to
emerging needs of research data management
in universities.
DataRes is a collaboration between the
University of North Texas Libraries, the UNT
College of Information, and the Council on
Library and Information Resources.

9. Project Aims
Governmental funding agency requirement
NSF NIH
NEH IMLS
Goals:
• Research consistent policies or programmatic
implementation from research institutions
• Emerging patterns in data management (DM)
policies
• Research libraries and LIS responses
• Curriculum and training development
• Expectations of major stakeholders in the
research cycle

10. Digging Deeper:
Text Analysis of Agency Guidance

11. Preliminary Findings:
Institutional Policy Scan

12. Text Analysis:
Institutional Policy Scan
38 institutional policies
Example language:
“The University recognizes the importance of data
sharing in the advancement of knowledge and
education.”
(University of New Hampshire “UNH.VII.C.9”)
An index of known policies, with links to the project data set will
be available in February 2013 at
http://datamanagement.unt.edu/policies

13. Survey Findings
Where does your institution offer Data Management Plan
Support?
Library
48%
Office of
Research
24%
IT Department
Individual 17%
Departments LIS School
8% 3%

14. Key Takeaways
Institution-level policies occur down the line, if at all.
Research Data Management is not a single
department issue, nor is it the purview of a single
discipline.
Collaboration, domain knowledge, and infrastructure
are all key to the success of any DM response.
Prescriptive guidance will be necessary to
encourage disciplines to take DM Plan
requirements seriously in evaluating funding
applications.

15. The Denton Declaration
May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas
• Open access to research data is critical for advancing
science, scholarship, and society.
• Research data, when repurposed, has an accretive value.
• Publicly funded research should be publicly available for
public good.
• Transparency in research is essential to sustain the public
trust.
• The validation of research data by the peer community is an
essential function of the responsible conduct of research.
• Managing research data is the responsibility of a broad
community of stakeholders including researchers, funders,
institutions, libraries, archivists, and the public.

16. http://openaccess.unt.edu/denton_declaration

17. DCC Data Life Cycle Model
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

18. http://epicgraphic.com/data-cake/

19. Prepare
Plan Technology/Infrastructure
Preserve
Publish

20. Implementation:
Target workshops to staff/librarians, grad
students, junior and contingent faculty.
Programming to support OA Policy, and educate
students as well as faculty.
Partnerships with Office of Research, Honors
College, College of Information.
Relentless, cheerful, and very public championing of
Open Access.

21. Futures of
Academic
Publishing
May 30th & 31st 2013
DallAs, Texas
Keynote: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern
Language Association; On-Leave Professor of
Media Studies, Pomona College
Author of Planned Obsolescence:
Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
(2011), and The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The
American Novel in the Age of Television (2006)

22. http://www.library.unt.edu/datamanagement
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