John Southall

University of Oxford | OX · Oxford Library Services

This article outlines the involvement of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford in developing new services for research data management. It offers reflections on what such additional support means for academic librarians, specifically considering support offered by subject consultants and a series of research data management (RDM) train...

An insider’s guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data. Interest in data has been growing in recent years. Support for this peculiar class of digital information – its use, preservation and curation, and how to support researchers’ production and...

The University of Oxford’s institutional repository for data, Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)-Data, was launched in May 2015. This article describes a current-state assessment of ORA-Data in relation to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) policy framework on research data and offers some future directions in impl...

The archiving of qualitative research data has developed greatly in recent years yet it is still the subject of much debate. Drawing on the experience of advising researchers and negotiating data deposits for the UK Data Archive, this article explores some of the common concerns about archiving. Particular emphasis is given to audio data as it repr...