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  • University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    One of our key tasks for the Research360 project was to produce an institutional template for data management plans (DMPs) at the University of Bath — an initial version of this is now complete and available to download, along with guidance on its completion. University of Bath Data Management Plan Template Writing your data management plan : [...]

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  • Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Our poster, “Research360: Sustainability of Project Outputs“, is now available to download from the University of Bath publication repository. This poster was presented at the JISCMRD programme’s final workshop in Birmingham on 25–26 March 2013. The poster gives an overview of the major strands of work in the Research360 project (Roadmap & Business Case, RDM Policy [...]

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  • Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Since our original post about data management planning for postgraduate researchers we’ve updated the template a couple of times. We’ve also created a guidance document to accompany it, which will help researchers develop a data management plan even if they haven’t been able to attend a face-to-face workshop. We’ve started using the template as part of [...]

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  • Developing joined up RDM infrastructure for institutions

    Developing joined up RDM infrastructure for institutions

    This is a report on Session 4A at the 

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  • Research Data Management and REF2014

    Research Data Management and REF2014

    The Research360 project is pleased to announce the public release of its guidance document Research Data Management and REF2014, prepared by staff at the University of Bath and Charles Beagrie Ltd. It is being disseminated and shared with the research community in Bath and other universities. Many universities are still in the process of enhancing and [...]

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  • IASSIST, Research Journals and Data Linkages

    IASSIST, Research Journals and Data Linkages

    The future of data publication was a big topic at this year’s IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) conference. The conference (the 39th to date) entitled Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibil...

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  • Signing Off

    Signing Off

    The one-year funded period for SageCite came to an end in July 2011.  It took a further few weeks to tie up some loose ends, and follow up on some of our dissemination activities.  As a belated sign off on the project, this post sums up the outputs o...

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  • Access to Citation Data

    Access to Citation Data

    Back in 2012, Jisc commissioned a study of the costs, benefits and risks associated with collecting and analysing citation data. That study is now nearing completion and will be published very soon. As a precursor to that, on 14 May 2013 I and a group ...

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  • Concluding post

    Concluding post

    As part of the process of wrapping up projects, this post sums up some of the outputs of the Patients Participate! project which ran during 2011-2012, and was funded by JISC.  Further information about the project and partners can be found in the link...

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  • A conversation with the funders

    A conversation with the funders

    The organisers of DCC’s special event, Funding Research Data Management, which took place on 25th April at Aston University, can surely claim that the essence of the debate (about what is acceptable, feasible and achievable in the use of research...

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