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The data librarian's handbook / Robin Rice and John Southall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Facet Publishing, 2016Description: xiii, 177 sidor illustrationerContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781783300471
  • 1783300477
  • 9781783300983
  • 1783300981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.00285 23/swe
Contents:
1. Data librarianship: responding to research innovation -- 2. What is different about data? -- 3. Supporting data literacy -- 4. Building a data collection -- 5. Research data management service and policy: working across your institution -- 6. Data management plans as a calling card -- 7. Essentials of data repositories -- 8. Dealing with sensitive data -- 9. Data sharing in the disciplines -- 10. Supporting open scholarship and open science
Summary: Interest in data has been growing in recent years. Support for this peculiar class of digital information its use, preservation and curation, and how to support researchers' production and consumption of it in ever greater volumes to create new knowledge, is needed more than ever. Many librarians and information professionals are finding their working life is pulling them toward data support or research data management but lack the skills required. The Data Librarian's Handbook, written by two data librarians with over 30 years' combined experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific purposes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Data librarianship: responding to research innovation -- 2. What is different about data? -- 3. Supporting data literacy -- 4. Building a data collection -- 5. Research data management service and policy: working across your institution -- 6. Data management plans as a calling card -- 7. Essentials of data repositories -- 8. Dealing with sensitive data -- 9. Data sharing in the disciplines -- 10. Supporting open scholarship and open science

Interest in data has been growing in recent years. Support for this peculiar class of digital information its use, preservation and curation, and how to support researchers' production and consumption of it in ever greater volumes to create new knowledge, is needed more than ever. Many librarians and information professionals are finding their working life is pulling them toward data support or research data management but lack the skills required. The Data Librarian's Handbook, written by two data librarians with over 30 years' combined experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific purposes.