Etats-Unis

« This document aims to improve consistency across Federal departments and agencies in the instructions they provide to researchers about selecting repositories for data resulting from Federally funded research. It identifies a set of desirable characteristics of online, public access data repositories to help ensure that research data are findable, accessible,…

« The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million for research to advance scientific data management and visualization. Foundational research in data management will address challenges stemming from the increasingly massive data sets produced by scientific experiments and supercomputers. Innovative and intuitive data visualization approaches will support scientific discovery, decision-making,…

« L’ARL, L’ABRC et Ithaka S+R sont heureux de publier le rapport final de la recherche commandée pour identifier les priorités stratégiques de la haute direction de l’enseignement supérieur et pour identifier ce que les bibliothèques de recherche peuvent faire pour les faire progresser. Merci aux 63 président(e)s d’université, provosts, scientifiques…

« In a push to make scholarly outputs more transparent and beneficial to a broader community, leaders from a diverse array of 65 U.S. colleges and universities are joining forces to advance the principles and practices of open scholarship. The partnership will ensure that as many students, faculty, practitioners, policy makers,…

« The need for research universities to understand expectations for scholarly publishing across a wide array of disciplines is vital to their self-understanding and to decision-making arising from that understanding. Administrators, staff, and faculty members serve on college-level executive committees, provost-level promotion and tenure committees, and committees that oversee campus-wide recognition…

« Today, January 20, 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office released its 2022–2026 Strategic Plan, Fostering Creativity and Enriching Culture, which sets out its goals for the next five years. The plan seeks to benefit the public by expanding the Office’s outreach, improving integration of data and technology, and…

« Scholarly data has become one of the most important components of Open Science. Governments and funders are mandating that researchers deposit their data in repositories and supply supporting metadata. This extra work will only get done if researchers are given proper credit for their data outputs. But, how prepared is…

« Research information management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US research universities, capable of advancing research, supporting strategic decision making, and streamlining administrative workflows. In 2020-21, OCLC Research convened a team of current and past RIM system managers to examine the RIM practices at US institutions. (…) »

« On October 27, 2021, the Librarian of Congress issued new exemptions to the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures set forth in the 17 U.S.C. 1201. Several of these exemptions adopted in the triennial section 1201 rulemaking explicitly support research activities. Moreover, the 350-page

« Based on interviews with big data researchers at UC Berkeley as part of an Ithaka S+R project, this local report provides insights on researcher practices and challenges in six thematic areas: data collection & processing; analysis: methods, tools, infrastructure; research outputs; collaboration; training; and balancing domain vs data science expertise.…