Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014 San Diego, CA

1. Yasmeen Shorish, Physical and Life Sciences Librarian

2.  19,927 students, 91% undergraduate
 940 FT faculty
 Active grant-seeking; 65% funding success rate
 Over 60% of funding is federal (FY13)
 Focus on undergraduate research

3.  Identify the need
 Evaluate resources
 Build services
 Plans to grow (?)

4.  2011: Faculty request guidance on NSF
DMP requirement
 Faculty reach out to numerous entities
without any cohesive direction
 Everyone wants boilerplate language

5.  What do we already have?
 Campus partners recognized the need and wanted to help
 Relative small size made it possible to get all parties
in one room
 Despite willingness, no immediate ability to build
infrastructure; no additional personnel or time to build
web services – beyond a LibGuide – to guide faculty

6.  What do we already have?
 Where there is a will, there’s a way
 Professional organizations
 Good neighbors

7.  Presented DMP Tool to administration
 Became a contributing institution in early
2012
 Prompted additional conversations around
data as a scholarly product

8.  Leveraged hosting ACRL Scholarly
Communication Roadshow
 Created a Scholarly Communication
Taskforce
 Cross-campus responses positioned the
library to request additional resources

9.  Hired a Digital Collections Librarian and a
Metadata Librarian
 Developing an institutional repository

10.  Why the question mark?
 Increase infrastructure: data policy
document
 Investigate where we can go from here:
 Room to add more curatorial efforts
 Additional personnel

11.  Identify the need
 Evaluate resources
 Build services
 Plans to grow (?)

12. Email: shorisyl@jmu.edu
Twitter: @yasmeen_azadi