Research Data Preservation Practices of Library and Information Science Faculties

Abstract


 Digitisation of research data is widely increasing all around the world because it needs more and development of enormous digital technologies. Data curation services are starting to offer many libraries. Research data curation is the collective invaluable and reusable information of the researchers. Collected data preservation is more important. The majority of the higher education institutes preserved the research data for their students and researchers. It is stored for a long time using various formats. It is called research data preservation. Without proper research data management plan and implementation cannot curate the research data. The aim of the study is to identify the Asian Library and Information Science (LIS) faculties’ experiences in the research data preservation and curation during their research. Data management, curation and preservation all are interlinked. For reuse of the research data; data curation is an essential role. For this research, we adopted a survey method and an online questionnaire was shared with 1400 LIS professionals, belonging to the Asian region but the completed study respondents are 125 university faculties from various Asian countries. The study findings are 76.8 per cent generated statistical data followed by 58.4 per cent textual files. By far, the most preferable data analysis tool is Microsoft Excel 82.4 per cent. Moreover, the result shows that generated data is mostly stored by personal computers and laptop hard disks. This study concludes LIS faculties having adequate skills and knowledge on data curation and preservation even though they are expecting more services from their academic institute libraries.

Research data management competencies of researchers in selected public universities in South Africa

“…As both participating institutions are still in the development stage of offering RDM services, most researchers store and back up their research data on personal computers, emails and external storage devices such as USBs, external hard drives and CDs rather than an IR and personal websites, as reflected in Table 1. Ng'eno and Mutula (2018), Chawinga (2019), Bunkar and Bhatt (2020) and Maurya and Subaveerapandiyan (2022) reported similar findings. Mushi (2021, p. 3) also reported a substantial portion, with more than 88% of researchers storing and handling research data on their devices.…”

“…Relevance of training is also evident in the studies ( Bunkar and Bhatt, 2020; Masinde et al. , 2021; Maurya and Subaveerapandiyan, 2022; Birkbeck et al. , 2022; Sheffield and Burton, 2022).…”

“…Bunkar and Bhatt (2020, p. 144) also recommend intensive training for library professionals. Relevance of training is also evident in the studies ( Bunkar and Bhatt, 2020;Masinde et al, 2021;Maurya and Subaveerapandiyan, 2022;Birkbeck et al, 2022;Sheffield and Burton, 2022).…”