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Data management plan workshop offered Oct. 6

October 1st, 2014

Will you be ready to provide access to research data when your funding agency, journal editor, collaborators or other researchers ask for it?  The Libraries, in collaboration with Office of the Vice President for Research and ITaP, are hosting a new Data Management Plan workshop on Oct. 6, 12:30-1:30 in STEW 314.  The workshop is for current or potential principal investigators.

The workshop will discuss data management plan requirements and data sharing policies of federal funding requirements such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. These agencies require a two page plan detailing how investigators will create, manage, disseminate and preserve data sets created as part of sponsored funded research. New requirements have been forthcoming since a memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy directed agencies to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research more widely available.

The workshop will identify options that researchers and groups have for managing and sharing their data, and highlight the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), a multipurpose collaborative space where data sets can be published, built on the HUBzero® platform.  There will be a demo of PURR, along with sample Data Management Plans and discussion of other resources made available by the Libraries, ITaP, and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships (EVPRP).

Refreshments will be provided by EVPRP.

For more information contact Scott Brandt, Professor of Library Science, Purdue University at techman@purdue.edu.