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Dec 20 2019

Data Management Course for Researchers

Posted on December 20, 2019February 4, 2020 by Brian Westra

Got research data? Have you shared it?

Other researchers, funders, publishers, and the public want to know:

The public – A Pew research survey found that open access to data and independent review inspire more trust in research findings by the public.

Research participants – Many clinical trial participants understand and support data sharing (within confidentiality and privacy protections) in order to advance medical research and improve patient outcomes.

Funders – Research funders strongly encourage or require data sharing, and require that research proposals include data management plans describing data sharing.

Other researchers – Many research disciplines and related professional societies and associations require data to be shared in support of reproducibility, transparency, and accelerating research. For example: American Geophysical Union, earth and space sciences, social sciences, and American Psychological Association.

Journals/Publishers – Many journals also have requirements that data be shared and preserved via repositories. For example: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, PLOS, Wiley, Nature, and Sage.

Preparing for data sharing

Good data management and curation practices will make it easier for you to preserve and share your data.

Graduate students are often responsible for many of the data management tasks associated with their research, and these practices may be new to them. These changing expectations and requirements may also be unfamiliar to faculty and staff. In order to assist with these tasks, the libraries provides instruction, consultations, and infrastructure to help researchers across the university with data management and curation.

In Spring 2020, we will be offering a 1-credit course on research data management.

This course is intended to build knowledge and expertise in essential best practices that students can immediately apply in their own research settings. We’ll focus on active-learning, with readings and discussion-based explorations of how to apply good data management to planning, active research, and preserving and sharing data.

The course is appropriate for any researcher who deals with quantitative data. We hope to see you there!

Course Title: Managing Data to Facilitate Your Research

Time and Location: 9:30 am – 10:20 am, Mondays, in 1100 UCC

Instructors: Brian Westra, Marina Zhang

More details: https://myui.uiowa.edu/my-ui/courses/details.page?id=924164&ci=172636

If you have any questions, please contact Brian Westra, brian-westra@uiowa.edu

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