Primary Research Group Inc. has published the
International Survey of Research
University Faculty: Data Management and Archiving Needs,
ISBN 978-157440-496-8
This report, based on responses from 104 faculty from
research universities in
the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand,
looks closely at the data
archiving, curation and management needs of faculty in
data intensive fields
such as medicine, chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy,
statistics and
mathematics, engineering, economics and finance,
sociology and political
science and other data-intensive fields.
The 114-page report reveals the extent to which faculty
are impacted by data
management and archiving requirements from co-authors,
funding sources,
academic departments, scholarly publications, data
repositories, regulatory
bodies, and others with data management requirements.
Data in the report is broken out by many personal and
institutional criteria
including: age, gender, tenure status, teaching load,
subject specialty and
academic title of the survey participant, and country of
origin, public/
private status, and world university ranking of the
university affiliated with
the survey participant, among other variables. The study looks at how many
scholars have imposed data access restrictions on their
archived data, and for
what reasons or following the strictures of what kind of
organization or
circumstance. The study also looks at which individuals
or offices handle data
archiving needs: the individual scholar, academic
library, academic
department, office of research or other venue.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
Nearly two thirds of post docs and fellows said that the
data requirements of
journal publishers impacted their work, the highest
percentage saying so among
all academic titles.
Scholars in physics and astronomy were the most likely to
say that the data
requirements of funding sources impacted their work.
Researchers based in the UK/Ireland were the most likely
to say that there is
a great or good deal of need for data management and
archiving services
(30.77%), followed by those in the U.S./Canada (22.66%)
and those in
Australia/New Zealand (20.00%).
For 2.91% of those sampled, the university office of
research handles data
archiving needs.
11.65% of those surveyed have had to impose data access
restrictions to their
data to meet terms of an intellectual property agreement.
To view a table of contents, an excerpt, the survey
questionnaire and a list
of the institutional affiliations of the survey
participants – or to place an
order – view the product page for this report at:
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