As the RIN?s new research officer, I?ve spent a bit of time over the last few weeks familiarising myself with the higher education sector.…
This fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum from 10-11 March 2010 looked at dealing with sensitive data: managing ethics, security and trust.…
As I mentioned last week, I recently attended the ELIXIR community event held by the BBSRC, MRC, NERC and the Wellcome Trust. I have to admit I only had vague knowledge of ELIXIR, so found the event really useful.…
Why is it that the run up to Christmas everyone else seems to be winding down but me?…
A new RIN/NESTA project will look at a series case studies examining what motivates researchers to work in an open way with regard to their data.…
The RIN presented a paper at the Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDSCR) workshop Data curation: from lab to reuse on 14 October 2009 in Oxford.…
This project will provide an analysis of the usage and impact of a number of research data centres, representing a cross-section of research disciplines in the UK.…
I have been doing some background reading on open access and was alerted to a new initiative by PLoS, entitled PLos Currents an”experimental” site for posting preprints of papers on hot topics. The first ?Current?…
One of the big pushes behind the data sharing drive has been the idea that by allowing researchers to have access to as much data, researchers will be able to combine in innovative ways leading to new and exciting developments.…
A workshop on 3 June 2009 will explore workforce and skills issues relating to research data management as they affect libraries.…
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