Center for Information and Communication Studies

Research Data Services in European Libraries: Current Offerings and Plans for the Future

Carol TenopirUniversity of Tennessee

Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki and

Wolfram HorstmannUniversity of Gottingen

LIBER Survey Builds on Previous DataONE Library Surveys

Library Baseline (2010)

Follow-up for comparison (2014)

Citations: 66

838 downloads (published Dec 2015)

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LIBER Survey Responding Libraries

Survey Respondents

North: 19%

East: 17%West: 51%

South: 13%

LIBER Academic Library Membership

West: 53%East: 16%

South: 17%

North: 15%

Key Findings

1. LIBER academic libraries offer and are planning a range of Research Data Services, but…

…Consultative RDS are most common…Fewer libraries offer technical RDS

2. There are some regional differences

3. Libraries use a variety of strategies for developing staff skills

1. LIBER academic libraries offer and are planning a range of Research Data Services

RDS offered by most libraries currently

Outreach/collaboration with other RDS providers

Consulting on data and metadata standards

Consulting on data mgt plans

Training colleagues on RDS

Involved in policy development/planning

Discussing RDS with others

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

43%

44%

46%

54%

66%

77%Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

RDS offered continued

ID datasets

Direct participation with researchers

Creating webguides

Providing ref. support for finding/citing data

Providing tech. support for RDS

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

26%

32%

35%

37%

38%

Consultative

Consultative

Consultative

Technical

Technical

Currently offered and future plans for consultative-type services

Discussi

ng RDS w

ith others

on a semi-re

gular b

asis

Involve

d in policy

development/p

lanning

Training coworkers

on RDS

Consulting o

n data mgt

plans

Consulting o

n metadata st

ds.

Outreach

/colla

b. With

others

Direct

particip

ation with

research

ers

Provide re

ference support

Create Web gu

ides0%

10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

77% 66% 54% 46% 44% 43% 32% 37% 35%

15% 25% 34% 43% 42% 41%32%

49% 49%

8% 8% 13% 11% 14% 16%36%

15% 16%

Yes No, but plan to No, and no plans

Currently offered and future plans for technical-type services

Providing t

echnica

l support f

or RDS s

ystems

Preparing d

ata/se

ts for d

eposit

ID Data

Create/Tr

ansfo

rm m

etadad

a

Deaccessi

on of data

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

38% 25% 26% 26%7%

42%44% 48% 43%

30%

21% 31% 26% 30%63%

Yes No, but plan to No, and no plans

2) There are some regional differences

Regional differences in consultative RDS availability

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

Training colleagues on RDS Discussing RDS with others Provide suppport for finding/citing data

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

60%

29%

65%

36%

86%

50%

90%

46% 47%

29%20%

27%

30%

43%

25%

55%

10%

21%

5%

46% 43%

41% 60%

64%

10%

29%

10% 9% 4%

29%

5% 9% 9%

29%20%

9%

Yes Plan to No, no plans

Regional differences in technical RDS availability

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

Wes

t

East

Nor

th

Sout

h

ID Datasets Prepare data Create/transform data/metadata

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

33%22%

5%

46%37%

19%5%

18%

36%

17% 14% 18%

44%

39% 67%

55%

40%

25% 60%

64%40%

39% 48%

64%

22%39%

29% 23%

56%

35%18% 25%

44% 38%

18%

Yes Plan to No, no plans

3) Libraries have a variety of strategies for developing staff skills

Have you hired staff for RDS in the last 12 months?

38.80%

61.20%

Yes

No

Has your library provided opportunities for library staff to develop skills related to RDS?

83.9%

16.1%Yes

No

Which of the following opportunities has your library provided for library staff to develop skills related to RDS?

Collaboration with others with skills related to RDS

In-house staff workshops

Support for staff to join working groups related to RDS

Support for staff to take courses related to RDS

Support for staff to attend conferences & workshops

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

9%

47%

59%

60%

78%

Staff Skills Development

Strategies

Collaborated with another institution to develop a skills-

based MOOC

Hired staff for projects (not permanent)

Moved staff from other support

unit [ITS]

Refocused an existing role

Dramatically increase the workload of some

poor individual librarian

Tools for RDS Education and Assistancehttps://www.dataone.org/education-modules

DataONE Education Modules

1. Why Data Management2. Data Sharing3. Data Management Planning4. Data Entry and Manipulation5. Data Quality Control and Assurance6. Data Protection and Backups7. Metadata8. How to Write Quality Metadata9. Data Citation10. Analysis and Workflows11. Legal and Policy Issues

Thank You!Carol Tenopir-University of

Tennessee Sanna Talja-University of

TampereWolfram Horstmann-

University of GottingenBirgit Schmidt-University of

Gottingen

Elina Late-University of Tampere

Lynn Baird- University of IdahoRobert Sandusky- University of

Illinois-ChicagoSuzie Allard-University of

TennesseeDane Hughes-University of

TennesseeDanielle Pollock-University of

Tennessee