The LEARN project’s third workshop entitled “Make research data management policies work” was held on 28 June 2016 at the Helsinki Congress Paasitorni . It was organised by LIBER together with the other LEARN partners (University College London, University of Vienna, University of Barcelona, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). A total of 65 registered delegates attended the day, […]
On 20 June 2016 the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud, of which I am a member, published its draft Report. This is the product of months of deliberation and discussion amongst the Group’s international membership. The aim of the Report is to look at the emerging concept of Open Research (known rather confusingly in English as Open Science) […]
Over the last two days of May, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) hosted the Italian OpenAIRE National Workshop organised by Cineca in Rome. Cineca is the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) in Italy. The two-day workshop focused primarily on the present situation and the future prospects for Open Science. In the first day we reviewed three relevant EU funded projects that have finished, or […]
On Wednesday 18th May 2016 Matt Mahon (UCL Library Services) attended the Jisc Research Data Network meeting at the University of Cardiff. This is his report from this event. “The day was organised in order to allow colleagues working on research data management across different UK higher education institutions to share their experiences of setting up various aspects of Research Data Management (RDM) services. In […]
The first week of April saw Amsterdam host the two-day Open Science Conference which was devoted to establishing an action plan to foster and promote open science. On the first day there were several panels introducing the current situation and the problems and challenges faced by this topic. The second day was focussed on action and this was where LIBER played an outstanding role by […]
Representatives of several ministries, funding bodies, research institutions from eight European countries and of two international publishers attended the 2nd LEARN workshop at the Campus of the University of Vienna, organised by LEARN partner UNIVIE with the help of the consortium members. The workshop, focused on Research Data Management towards Open Science, was designed to encourage all stakeholders – researchers, research funders, research organisations and senior decision makers – […]
(This post is also available in Spanish / Este post también está disponible en castellano: Preparando el camino hacia la Gestión de Datos de Investigación en América Latina y el Caribe: El rol de la CEPAL en el Proyecto LEARN) As a Project partner, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has actively been promoting LEARN and pursuing efforts to advocate […]
Have you designed a research data management plan at your institution? Are you involved in the provision of an RDM service for your community? Have you developed an RDM policy for your organization? Have you defined a cost model for management of your research data? At LEARN Project we are very interested on hearing about your experience, whether successful or not, and gather representative stories […]
LEARN Partner University of Vienna has started to analyse existing Research Data Management (RDM) policies at selected Universities and research institutions, identifying Data Management Plans (DMP) as core instruments of RDM policies. Data Management Plans (DMP) encompass the entire lifecycle of data, including generation, storage, and management of data after project completion. For researchers, DMPs provide an aid to foster thinking, right from the beginning, […]
Managing research data has become one the contemporary challenges for research institutions. More and more funders and publishers are asking researchers to share the data they gather, compile or create during the course of their research. However it is not simply an issue of sharing or publishing as the matter goes further than that. Research institutions need to provide support for the complete research cycle, […]
