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The New OSTP Policy & What it Means
Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to calls for broader access to federally funded research. I was curious as to whether this policy had any teeth, so I...
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Closed Data… Excuses, Excuses
If you are a fan of data sharing, open data, open science, and generally openness in research, you’ve heard them all: excuses for keeping data out of the public domain. If you are NOT a fan of...
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It’s Time for Better Project Metrics
I’m involved in lots of projects, based at many institutions, with multiple funders and oodles of people involved. Each of these projects has requirements for reporting metrics that are used to prove...
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UC Faculty Senate Passes #OA Policy
Big news! I just got this email regarding the new Open Access Policy for the University of California System. I’ll write a full blog post next week but wanted to share this as soon as possible....
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A Closer Look at the New UC Open Access Policy
The UC is opening up their research locker. From Flickr by sam.d Last week, the University of California announced a new Open Access Policy. Here I will explore the policy in a bit more detail. The...
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UC Open Access: How to Comply
Free access to UC research is almost as good as free hugs! From Flickr by mhauri My last two blog posts have been about the new open access policy that applies to the entire University of California...
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RDA Meeting Part 2: The Meeting in DC
In last week’s post, I outlined the basic structure of the Research Data Alliance, a group intent on enabling international data sharing and collaboration. I attended the recent RDA 2nd Plenary in...
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Institutional Repositories: Part 1
If you aren’t a member of the library and archiving world, you probably aren’t aware of the phrase institutional repository (IR for short). I certainly wasn’t aware of IRs prior to joining the CDL, and...
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Feedback Wanted: Publishers & Data Access
This post is co-authored with Jennifer Lin, PLOS Short Version: We need your help! We have generated a set of recommendations for publishers to help increase access to data in partnership with...
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It takes a data management village
A couple of weeks ago, information scientists, librarians, social scientists, and their compatriots gathered in Toronto for the 2014 IASSIST meeting. IASSIST is, of course, an acronym which I always...
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Data Citation Redux
I know what faithful DCXL readers are thinking: didn’t you already post about data citation? (For the unfaithful among you, check out this post from last November). Yes, I did. But I’ve been inspired...
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