Our monthly online drop-in session for ORDO is tomorrow, Tuesday 4th September, 11:30 – 12:30.
Ask Dan about using our research data repository, ORDO, for data preservation, data sharing, showcasing your work, collaborative projects… and anything else.
To join, go to our Adobe Connect “Research Support” page and click on “join room” (and if you find the link takes you to the “DISS Home” page instead, click on “Resources” at the top and scroll down to “Research Support”).
Our monthly online drop-in session for ORDO is tomorrow, Tuesday 7th August, 11:30 – 12:30.
Ask Dan about using our research data repository, ORDO, for data preservation, data sharing, showcasing your work, collaborative projects… and anything else.
To join, go to our Adobe Connect “Research Support” page and click on “join room” (and if you find the link takes you to the “DISS Home” page instead, click on “Resources” at the top and scroll down to “Research Support”).
There have been a few new, free online training resources for researchers released lately, so we thought with summer here it would be worth a roundup.
From a focus on working with data and data management to a broader range looking at different aspects of working openly, there should be something for everyone.
students and early career researchers in the environmental sciences, but useful for anyone who wants to learn new data skills. It includes ways to engage and share data with business, policymakers, media and the wider public.
countries, with the aim of developing Open Science. Their draft Open Science training courses have just been released for use and public consultation, so early users have a chance to shape their development. Courses include What is Open Science?, Open Science and Innovation, Data Protection and Ethics, and Open Access Publishing.
If you get a chance to work through any of these and have feedback that you’d like to share, please let us know so we can pass it on. Get in touch at library-research-support@open.ac.uk
Our monthly online drop-in session for ORDO is today, 11:30 – 12:30.
Ask Dan about using ORDO for data preservation, data sharing, showcasing your work, collaborative projects… and anything else.
To join, go to our Adobe Connect “Research Support” page and click on “join room” (and if you find the link takes you to the “DISS Home” page instead, click on “Resources” at the top and scroll down to “Research Support”).
Heard of ORDO already but not sure what it does?
Never heard of it before but interested in options for storing and sharing data to support your research?
I’ll be holding an online drop-in session for ORDO, the OU’s research data repository, on the first Tuesday of every month at 10:30 to answer any questions you have about data preservation, data sharing, showcasing your work, collaborative projects… and anything else.
The first session is on Tuesday 5th June, and then at the same time on the first Tuesday of every month after that. Drop-in at any time and stay as long as you want.
To join, go to our Adobe Connect “Research Support” page and click on “join room” (and if you find the link takes you to the “DISS Home” page instead, click on “Resources” at the top and scroll down to “Research Support”).
If you want to get started right away, see the ORDO information on our website or get in touch at library-research-support@open.ac.uk
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone with an email address that the GDPR comes in to force this week.
The GDPR is the new General Data Protection Regulation: an EU-wide regulation that provides rules for how personal data is handled.
It has implications for how organisations gather, manage, use and share personal data – for example when marketing and delivering services, as demonstrated by the many emails we have all no doubt received recently from companies we once interacted with in one way or another.
But there are also implications for researchers working with personal data, and in March Dr Marc Cornock wrote a guest post for us about GDPR and introduced his editorial about the issues affecting research.
Further to this, we have written a guide: GDPR – How does it affect Research Data Management and data sharing?, highlighting the key issues for researchers and drawing together some useful resources and contacts.
If you have any comments or suggestions from your experience, please do get in touch. The guidance will be updated and improved as we all get to grips with GDPR.
There are still spaces available on our training session ‘Making your research data open‘ on Monday 21st May 2018, 14:00 to 15:30.
Image by Jorgen Stamp (CC-BY) at https://digitalbevaring.dk/
In this session we will look at the hows, whats and whys of data sharing:
Sign up via My Learning Centre – any if you have any questions, get in touch at library-research-support@open.ac.uk.
The UK Data Service has just launched three new online Data Skills Modules, to introduce data to non-experts via easy-to-use interactive sessions.
Launched as beta versions, they are introductory level modules using short instructional videos, interactive quizzes and activities to test your knowledge, and are aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about using:
You can conduct the modules in your own time, and dip in and out around your schedule.
As always, we also recommend checking out the many other excellent resources for using and managing data on the UK Data Service site.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has changed how it wants funding applicants to tell them how they will manage and share their research data. Previously, a Technical Plan was required, which would then be reviewed by members of the Technical College, but AHRC now requires a Data Management Plan (DMP) to be submitted instead, which will be assessed by members of the Academic College as part of the whole proposal.
A DMP will be mandatory for all Research Grants, Follow on Funding and Leadership Fellows proposals, and harmonises AHRC with other Research Councils, most of which require a DMP.
Plans should give information about:
AHRC has updated its Research Funding Guide to include guidance about what information to include for these sections, the format to use (no more than 2 pages of A4 at font size 11!), and how to name your plan.
The funding guide also describes that when submitting, applicants confirm that their institution has considered and will meet a number of points which support and facilitate good data management. These services and information about them are all available at the OU, so if you have any questions please get in touch.
DMP Online has also been updated and now has an AHRC DMP template with relevant guidance, making it easy to structure and format your plan.
As usual, we are very happy to review DMPs before they are submitted (you can email them to library-research-suppotr@open.ac.uk), and, as we do for other funders, we will add examples of completed plans to our website as soon as we have them. If you’re happy to share yours, please let us know!
Ps. You might want to check out the recording and slides from our recent online training session on Writing Successful Data Management Plans
ORDO (Open Research Data Online) is the OU’s research data repository, where OU research staff and students can upload their data, for:
You can use it to publish data supporting a publication, or to archive at the end of a project.
“ORDO has proved incredibly useful for hosting sound clips generated by acoustic simulations and experiments, enabling us to provide a link to those clips within conference papers and journal publications” (Professor David Sharp)
We’ll be having an online drop-in next week on Tuesday 27TH March at 11:00-12:00, where we’ll show you how it works and be on hand to answer any questions you have. Feel free to join us at any time during the hour.
To join the session, go to our Adobe Connect online room page and click on “join room”.
If that time doesn’t work for you, or if you want to get started, you can find ORDO at ou.figshare.com and log in with your OU credentials.
For more information, see the ORDO information on our website or get in touch at library-research-support@open.ac.uk