Advocating good research data management goes beyond simply informing researchers about policy requirements and includes integrated and sophisticated communication. This talk outlines how Cambridge University has met this challenge.

1. Open Access to Research
Data
Westminster Briefing
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly
Communication
University of Cambridge
9 December 2015

2. What are we trying to
achieve?
“Publicly funded research data are a public good (…) which should be
made openly available with as few restrictions as possible…”
RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/researchdatapolicy
Note AHRC does not require open access to data

3. In place since 2011

4. Sharpening minds

5. Cambridge activities 2015
It has been a big year!

6. Award size <£100k
£100k -
£500k
£0.5m -
£2m
£2m -
£5m >£5m
Number of awards in this category per year 111 186 95 23 11
Proposed charge (in £) per grant in this category 165 450 450 450 450
Revenue from each grant category (in £) 16,650 74,400 38,000 9,200 4,400
Total revenue from grants per year (in £) 160,065
Total Facility cost per year 159,543

8. www.data.cam.ac.uk

11. Huge engagement programme

12. Open Data Panel Discussion
https://upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2113537
https://storify.com/CamOpenData/odpd15
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=392

14. www.repository.cam.ac.uk

16. In conversation with…
• Ben Ryan, EPSRC, May 2015
• “EPSRC are trying to create a new research culture, and they
are primarily focused on what the institution should be doing
to support that.”
• https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=151
• Michael Ball, BBSRC August 2015
• “The take home messages from the meeting were the
importance of:
– Disciplines themselves establishing ways of dealing with data
– Thinking about how to deal with data from the beginning of a
research project”
• https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=337

17. Frequently Asked Questions
• They really are!
• From discussion with
over 1300
researchers
• Approved by EPSRC
http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/data-faq

18. RCUK guidelines
• http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/
research/datapolicy/
• Not well
communicated
• Dated July 2015

20. Constant outreach
Twitter: @CamOpenData
Newsletter sign up: www.data.cam.ac.uk

21. Postcards & banners
All promotional materials can be downloaded from
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/librarians/oa/oa_promo.html

22. Money talks
And it is quiet out there

23. Charge for storage (over 1GB)

24. Staffing the service
Head of
Scholarly
Communicatio
n
Repository
Integration
Manager
Open Access
Research
Advisors
(x3)
Research
Repository
Assistants (x2)
Research Data
Facility Manager
Research
Repository
Assistant
Repository
Manager
Communications
and Marketing
Coordinator

25. Funder requirements

26. Option for supporting service

27. Option for supporting service

28. We are discussing options
• How do you fund the resource to meet the
requirements?
– Flat charge
– Graduated charge depending on size of grant
– Percentage of grant
– Proportion with number of FTE on grant
• Even if we do put it on the grants we have
a transition period

29. What we will be doing in 2016
• Upgrade DSpace from V4.3 to V5.X
– Mint DOIs (we have a DataCite licence)
– Collect information on data requestors
– Statistics of data use
– Rebrand the ‘look and feel’
• Data display through VIVO
• Communication across the whole research
lifecycle (a big project)
• Participation in pilot of Jisc Shared Repository
Service
• Discussion with funders about support for the
services

30. Thanks and questions
• Email:
– info@data.cam.ac.uk
– info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk
– info@osc.cam.ac.uk
• Web:
– www.data.cam.ac.uk
– www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk
– www.osc.cam.ac.uk
• Unlocking Research blog:
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
• Twitter:
– @CamOpenData
– @dannykay68
– @CamOpenAccess