The US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis, all of whom are members of the Data Curation Network (DCN), a $741,921 National Leadership Grant to examine institutional expenses for public access to research data. This research builds upon ARL’s existing Realities of Academic Data Sharing initiative.
Building upon ARL’s previous National Science Foundation grant, this work will expand research into the expense and service models for public access to research data by digging deep into the expenses within an institution (including campus IT, the research office, centers and institutes, and libraries) and recruiting a diverse set of five institutions to participate in the next round of research. As an incentive for participating, these five institutions will receive a no-cost two-year membership in the DCN and access to a full-time DCN employee to assist with local, institutional research-data services outreach and service development.
Grant funds will be used for community building, research-team staffing, and tools and technology.
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