OCLC: The Realities of Research Data Management – Part Four: Sourcing and Scaling University RDM Services

« The Realities of Research Data Management is a four-part series that explores how research universities are addressing the challenge of managing research data throughout the research lifecycle. In this series, we examine the context, influences, and choices higher education institutions face in building or acquiring RDM capacity—in other words, the infrastructure, services, and other resources needed to support emerging data management practices.(…)

This final report of the series examines the sourcing and scaling choices made by the four research universities regarding their acquisition of RDM capacity. What variables are being maximized in these decisions: efficiency/cost reduction? Reliability/trust? The choices that individual institutions make with respect to sourcing and scaling likely depend on a host of factors, including local staffing and infrastructure, availability of cooperatively sourced or nationally provisioned services and willingness to pay for commercially sourced solutions. (…) »

source > oclc.org/research, Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas, 2018, doi:10.25333/C3QW7M.

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• Données de la recherche,
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC),
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