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Author Age, Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital

Title Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages)
Contents FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Research Data in the Digital Age -- 2 Ensuring the Integrity of Research Data -- 3 Ensuring Access to Research Data -- 4 Promoting the Stewardship of Research Data -- 5 Defining Roles and Responsibilities -- Appendix A: Biographical Information on the Members of the Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age
Appendix B: Relevant National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council ReportsAppendix C: Letters from Scientific Journals Requesting the Study -- Index
Summary As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research; and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenges in preserving that data for long-term use. Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age examines the consequences of the changes affecting research data with respect to three issues - integrity, accessibility, and stewardship-and finds a need for a new approach to the design and the management of research projects. The report recommends that all researchers receive appropriate training in the management of research data, and calls on researchers to make all research data, methods, and other information underlying results publicly accessible in a timely manner. The book also sees the stewardship of research data as a critical long-term task for the research enterprise and its stakeholders. Individual researchers, research institutions, research sponsors, professional societies, and journals involved in scientific, engineering, and medical research will find this book an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in the digital age
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Electronic information resources -- Access control.
Electronic information resources -- United States -- Management
Information technology -- Scientific applications
Research -- Technological innovations
Electronic information resources -- Access control
Information technology -- Scientific applications
Research -- Technological innovations
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309136853
0309136857
1282437178
9781282437173