Researchers are increasingly being asked to ensure that all products of research activity – not just traditional publications – are preserved and made widely available. Adoption of good data curation practices is critical to open scientific inquiry, discourse, and advancement. With their long history in the management and dissemination of multifarious information resources, libraries play a key role in providing scholars with the tools and services necessary for the effective long-term curation of research data, encompassing data lifecycle management, preservation, sharing, dissemination, and reuse. This presentation will provide an overview of efforts the California Digital Library’s University of California Curation Center (UC3) group and their partners have undertaken to develop services that help researchers improve their handling, sharing, and archiving of datasets. Services include the DMPTool (Data Management Planning Tool), the Merritt Repository, the Dash Repository, and a other services that help researchers manage and get credit for their data.

California Digital Library: Advancing the digital transition of scholarly information

251st National Meeting (2016)

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