Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members
Objective: In light of academic libraries expanding the data services they offer, this article hopes to improve the understanding of data practices, challenges and future needs of academic library user groups. Setting, Design and Method: In the fall of 2013, librarians and campus grant specialist...
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UMass Chan Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
2015-06-01
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| description | Objective: In light of academic libraries expanding the data services they offer, this article hopes to improve the understanding of data practices, challenges and future needs of academic library user groups.
Setting, Design and Method: In the fall of 2013, librarians and campus grant specialist conducted an institution wide web-based survey at the University of Kansas, a major public research institution, with several hundred respondents.
Results: Graduate students and faculty members report differences in their data practices, research challenges and data-related needs.
Conclusions: Academic libraries should target data services to the interests and needs of their distinct user groups. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-abd6e6d59b964d27af864a43c62a337b2023-01-02T04:17:14ZengUMass Chan Medical School, Lamar Soutter LibraryJournal of eScience Librarianship2161-39742015-06-0141Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty MembersTravis Weller0Amalia Monroe-Gulick1University of KansasUniversity of KansasObjective: In light of academic libraries expanding the data services they offer, this article hopes to improve the understanding of data practices, challenges and future needs of academic library user groups. Setting, Design and Method: In the fall of 2013, librarians and campus grant specialist conducted an institution wide web-based survey at the University of Kansas, a major public research institution, with several hundred respondents. Results: Graduate students and faculty members report differences in their data practices, research challenges and data-related needs. Conclusions: Academic libraries should target data services to the interests and needs of their distinct user groups.http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol4/iss1/2/data servicesdata managementacademic librariesfacultygraduate students |
| spellingShingle | Travis Weller Amalia Monroe-Gulick Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members Journal of eScience Librarianship data services data management academic libraries faculty graduate students |
| title | Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members |
| title_full | Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members |
| title_short | Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members |
| title_sort | differences in the data practices challenges and future needs of graduate students and faculty members |
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