“…The provisioning of RDS within academic libraries is complex and is characterized by the range of data management activities that libraries offer as it relates to supporting researchers and managing research data during the entirety of the research data lifecycle (Koltay, 2022;Tenopir et al, 2012). Though numerous definitions have been offered for RDS, the definition put forth by Pinfield et al (2014) is often cited: "[RDS] consists of a number of different activities and processes associated with the data lifecycle, involving the design and creation of data, storage, security, preservation, retrieval, sharing, and reuse, all taking into account technical capabilities, ethical considerations, legal issues and governance frameworks" (pp.…”