Data Literacy and Research Data Management in Two Top Universities in Poland. Raising Awareness

Wiorogorska, Zuzanna; Leśniewski, Jędrzej; Rozkosz, Ewa A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_22

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“…The results showed rather basic data usages with no consideration of technical support from the Libraries. Wiorogo ´rska et al [39] presented the results of a quantitative study in Poland conducted within the framework of the international research project named ReDaM coordinated by the Information Literacy Association (InLitAs) in 2017. The results revealed that a significant number of respondents knew some basic concepts around research data management (RDM), but they had not used institutional solutions elaborated in their parent institutions.…”

Section: Open Research Datamentioning

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Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case

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Raffaghelli

2020

Journal of Information Science

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Open research data (ORD) have been considered a driver of scientific transparency. However, data friction, as the phenomenon of data underutilisation for several causes, has also been pointed out. A factor often called into question for ORD low usage is the quality of the ORD and associated metadata. This work aims to illustrate the use of ORD, published by the Figshare scientific repository, concerning their scientific discipline, their type and compared with the quality of their metadata. Considering all the Figshare resources and carrying out a programmatic quality assessment of their metadata, our analysis highlighted two aspects. First, irrespective of the scientific domain considered, most ORD are under-used, but with exceptional cases which concentrate most researchers’ attention. Second, there was no evidence that the use of ORD is associated with good metadata publishing practices. These two findings opened to a reflection about the potential causes of such data friction.

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Section: Open Research Datamentioning

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Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case

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Raffaghelli

2020

Journal of Information Science

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“…In this context, in 2017 and 2018 the Information Literacy Association coordinated an international research project ReDaM aimed to collect data about data literacy of academics and research students in higher education institutions. A part of this project was a study conducted in Poland (Wiorogórska et al, 2018). The purpose of the study was to explore the types of RDM of academic staff and research students and to assess the RDM awareness level of both target groups.…”

Section: Research Data and Their Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research Data: Management and Opening. Polish and European Perspectives

Wiorogorska¹

2019

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Purpose/Thesis: This paper attempts to present the trends in management and opening of research data in Poland and the European Union, based on the analysis of the recently published Polish and European acts and documents as well as of other international initiatives which might influence scholarly publishing and scholarly communication.Approach/Methods: An in-depth review of the latest documents was applied. Results and conclusions: I focused on highlighting the key elements of the reviewed documents and initiatives, highlighting the directions for managing and opening of research data they set and the implications they might have for Polish and European science. I also sketched the possible inconsistencies between the European and Polish policies related to research data and scholarly communication.Research limitations: The documents investigated for the purpose of this paper were either Polish or provided by the European Union (EU). I have not analyzed the national documents issued by the individual member states of the EU other than Poland. Hence, it is probable that some solutions on research data management and opening already taken on the level of individual member states have not been included in this paper.Practical implications: This paper may encourage a reflection on the relationship between the regulations issued at the European (EU) or at the national (in this case, Polish), and the practices and requirements of scholarly communication which often contradict those regulations.Originality/Value: This is the first analysis of the latest Polish and European documents and initiatives as related to data management and open data (open science).

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“…Some studies also referred to the need for support and coaching by the researchers to develop a more OIR 47,1 sophisticated understanding of data platforms and practices, showing basic data usage without technical support from Libraries (Pouchard and Bracke, 2016). Wiorog orska et al (2018) investigated data practices through a quantitative study in Poland led by the Information Literacy Association (InLitAs). The results revealed that a significant number of respondents knew some basic concepts related to research data management (RDM), but they had not used institutional solutions elaborated in their parent institutions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Some studies also referred to the need for support and coaching by the researchers to develop a more sophisticated understanding of data platforms and practices, showing basic data usage without technical support from Libraries (Pouchard and Bracke, 2016). Wiorogórska et al. (2018) investigated data practices through a quantitative study in Poland led by the Information Literacy Association (InLitAs).…”

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Exploring the social activity of open research data on ResearchGate: implications for the data literacy of researchers

Raffaghelli

Manca

2022

OIR

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Purpose Although current research has investigated how open research data (ORD) are published, researchers' behaviour of ORD sharing on academic social networks (ASNs) remains insufficiently explored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the connections between ORDs publication and social activity to uncover data literacy gaps.Design/methodology/approach This work investigates whether the ORDs publication leads to social activity around the ORDs and their linked published articles to uncover data literacy needs. The social activity was characterised as reads and citations, over the basis of a non-invasive approach supporting this preliminary study. The eventual associations between the social activity and the researchers' profile (scientific domain, gender, region, professional position, reputation) and the quality of the ORD published were investigated to complete this picture. A random sample of ORD items extracted from ResearchGate (752 ORDs) was analysed using quantitative techniques, including descriptive statistics, logistic regression and K-means cluster analysis.Findings The results highlight three main phenomena: (1) Globally, there is still an underdeveloped social activity around self-archived ORDs in ResearchGate, in terms of reads and citations, regardless of the published ORDs quality; (2) disentangling the moderating effects over social activity around ORD spots traditional dynamics within the “innovative” practice of engaging with data practices; (3) a somewhat similar situation of ResearchGate as ASN to other data platforms and repositories, in terms of social activity around ORD, was detected.Research limitations/implications Although the data were collected within a narrow period, the random data collection ensures a representative picture of researchers' practices.Practical implications As per the implications, the study sheds light on data literacy requirements to promote social activity around ORD in the context of open science as a desirable frontier of practice.Originality/value Researchers data literacy across digital systems is still little understood. Although there are many policies and technological infrastructure providing support, the researchers do not make an in-depth use of them.Peer reviewThe peer-review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-05-2021-0255.

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Data Literacy and Research Data Management in Two Top Universities in Poland. Raising Awareness

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case

Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case

Research Data: Management and Opening. Polish and European Perspectives

Exploring the social activity of open research data on ResearchGate: implications for the data literacy of researchers

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