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How important is a data management plan for researchers?
How important is a data management plan for researchers?
Is it necessary to share ALL your data? Is transparency a good thing or does it make researchers “vulnerable,” like author Nathan Schneider writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Why Researchers Shouldn’t Share All Their Data.”
A data management plan is invaluable to researchers and to their universities. “You should plan at the outset for managing output long-term,” said Reid Boehm, research data management librarian at University of Houston Libraries. At the University of Houston, research data generated while individuals are pursuing research studies as faculty, staff or students of the ...
With the massive amounts of data available, the desire to mine it all to come up with detailed recommendations to improve the bottom line in business, health, education and you-name-it is at an all-time high. There’s a lot of enthusiasm in the medical field in particular to mine the rich data from health records and ...