Presentation given by Anna Clements as part of the Digital Curation Centre's Round Table: "How can other stakeholders support repositories on research data", which was led by Anna Clements, University of St Andrews; Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre; Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh; Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre. . The Round Table took place on Friday 2nd August 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013

1. C4D Workshop, Glasgow and London. July 2013
Anna Clements
University of St Andrews
REPOFRINGE 2013 Round Table
August 2nd 2013
RDM : Who’s driving

2. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Who’s driving?
• Funders & Policy Makers
• Institutions
• Researchers
• Other …

3. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Funders & Policy
Makers
UK Government/BIS Open Data White Paper, Finch
Royal Society ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’
RCUK Common Principles, EPSRC Framework, OA
Policy
HEFCE REF2020
EU Horizon2020, OpenAire
US Government Executive Order
US Funders NSF, NIH
G8 Open Data Charter

4. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Who What & When Reference
UK Government
(BIS)
Open Data White Paper, June
2012
Research Transparency Sector
Board announced to
‘.. consider how we open up publicly funded
research data in a way that maximises public
benefit.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/
uploads/system/uploads/attachm
ent_data/file/78946/CM8353_ac
c.pdf
Finch Report, June 2012
‘the infrastructure of subject and institutional
repositories should be developed so that they play
a valuable role complementary to formal
publishing, particularly in providing access to
research data and to grey literature, and in digital
preservation;’
http://www.researchinfonet.org/
wp-
content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-
Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
Royal Society Science as a Public Enterprise,
June 2012
‘ Publishing data in a reusable form to support
findings must be mandatory’
http://royalsociety.org/policy/pro
jects/science-public-
enterprise/report/

5. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Who What & When Reference
Research
Councils
Common Principles on Data
Policy, 2011
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/
Pages/DataPolicy.aspx
EPSRC Policy Framework on
Research Data, May 2011
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/st
andards/researchdata/Pages/poli
cyframework.aspx
Open Access Policy, 1st April 2013
‘All papers must include details of the funding that
supported the research and, if applicable, a
statement on how the underlying research
materials – such as data, samples or models – can
be accessed.’
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/document
s/documents/RCUKOpenAccessP
olicy.pdf
HEFCE REF2020 Open Consultation, July
2013
‘.. we do not consider it feasible at present to
make access to data a formal requirement in a
post-2014 REF.’
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/ye
ar/2013/201316/#d.en.82765

6. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Who What & When Reference
Wellcome Trust Policy on data management and
sharing, Aug 2010
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Abo
ut-us/Policy/Policy-and-position-
statements/WTX035043.htm
Cancer
Research UK
Policy on data sharing and
preservation, 2009
http://www.cancerresearchuk.or
g/science/funding/terms-
conditions/funding-
policies/policy-data-sharing/

7. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
Who What & When Reference
EU Horizon
2020
[Starts 2014]
Horizon 2020 FAQs, Oct 2012
‘.. to develop a pilot on open access to data,
primarily those data underlying (open access)
scientific publications.’
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-
society/document_library/pdf_06/backgro
und-paper-open-access-october-
2012_en.pdf
OpenAire/Liber/COAR data pilot, July
2013
https://www.openaire.eu/en/about-
openaire/publications-
presentations/publications/doc_details/58
5-horizon2020opendatapilot20130703final
US Government Obama Executive Order on Open
Data, 9th May 2013
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-
press-office/2013/05/09/executive-
order-making-open-and-machine-
readable-new-default-government-
US Funders NIH and NSF data sharing policies http://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/nih
_data_sharing_policies.html
http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/d
mp.jsp
G8 Open Data Charter, June 2013
‘Open by default’ principle
https://www.gov.uk/government/pub
lications/open-data-charter

8. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
• Research Strategy
* public good * competition for funds, researchers,
students
• Mission Groups
• Regional
• (Dis)Incentives for staff
* Performance reviews
Institutions

9. RepoFringe, August 2nd 2013, Edinburgh
• Proactive
– can see the benefits; encouraging others
• Reactive
– Fear of reduced funding; falling behind peers; tied to
promotion prospects
• Generational differences
• Discipline differences
• Academies and Societies
• Journal data policies
– http://jordproject.wordpress.com
– http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html
Researchers