Dr Anesh Nair1, Dr Kyle Hemming2
1University Of Canberra, Canberra, Australia, 2Intersect Australia, Sydney CBD, Australia
Researchers are invested in keeping their data safe and secure, but also collaborating and publishing their data. Universities are increasingly required to have oversight over research data, such as amount, storage location, and access rights.
Data management planning (DMP) is a means to ensure effective governance research data produced in a research project, meeting both researcher and University needs.
However, engagement with DMP can be hampered by a lack of awareness and access to DMP tools and processes.
The University of Canberra (UC) has recently completed several projects aimed at providing researchers with a DMP platform that links with new and existing tools, as well engaging with UC researchers, outlining why and how to use DMP platforms.
In this talk, we highlight how the UC has worked closely with data manager platform specialists Elsevier and QCIF to add and link its new DMP tool ReDBox to data manager and publishing tools Data Monitor and DC (Digital Commons) Data. Additionally, we describe how these tools have been linked to existing UC platforms, researcher data manager (Pure) and ethics (Infonetica).
We outline how UC has been engaging its researcher communities to navigate these new tools. We identified key researcher stakeholders: HDR [PhD] students, academic staff, and primary supervisors, and spoke with them within each of UC’s five faculties.
Finally, for the ARDC’s Institutional Underpinnings Project, we describe the guidelines and materials produced which cover the DMP platform integrations and engagement strategies, available for other institutions which may facing similar DMP challenges.
Biography:
Dr Anesh Nair is the Manager of Research Ethics, Integrity and eResearch at University of Canberra. In this role, the team has been involved in several eResearch initiatives. Dr Nair is currently spearheading the University’s participation in ARDC’s Institutional Underpinnings program and is a member of the editorial committee. He has a keen interest in research data management and works closely with Kyle Hemming.
Dr Kyle Hemming is an eResearch Analyst at Intersect Australia, based at the University of Canberra (UC). Kyle is actively involved in data management planning at UC as well as the Institutional Underpinnings program. In this role, Kyle also develops and organises training and support sessions for researchers, and is involved in strategy and planning, sitting on the eResearch Committee. Kyle recently completed his PhD at UC, in which he built ecological models to forecast the spread and impacts of exotic species.