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The possibilities offered by the Internet will give researchers and teaching staff broad and easy access to scientific/scholarly sources. It is not only publications that will become available but also the underlying data, models, and algorithms. Adding the underlying data and models to an article makes it easier to verify, reproduce, and re-use the results of research. An article of this kind is referred to as an "enhanced publication

From a survey of ACRL member libraries, this report examines the scope of library participation in data research services while identifying future opportunities for collaboration, especially in research intensive institutions.

"led by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Institute, Fundar, Sunlight Foundation and the World Wide Web Foundation. It mission is to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best harness the opportunities created by opening government data."

Survey of science librarians at ARL member institutions

With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective

From the abstract: ", we propose a social framework based on crowdsourced annotations of scholars, designed to keep up with the rapidly evolving disciplinary and interdisciplinary landscape. We describe a system called Scholarometer, which provides a service to scholars by computing citation-based impact measures. This creates an incentive for users to provide disciplinary annotations of authors, which in turn can be used to compute disciplinary metrics. We first present the system architecture and several heuristics to deal with noisy bibliographic and annotation data. We report on data sharing and interactive visualization services enabled by Scholarometer. Usage statistics, illustrating the data collected and shared through the framework, suggest that the proposed crowdsourcing approach can be successful. Secondly, we illustrate how the disciplinary bibliometric indicators elicited by Scholarometer allow us to implement for the first time a universal impact measure proposed in the literature. Our evaluation suggests that this metric provides an effective means for comparing scholarly impact across disciplinary boundaries."

Education for eScience Professionals: Integrating Data Curation and Cyberinfrastructure Youngseek Kim

Digital Curation and big data symposium (July 2012)

Microsoft Research Connections and UKOLN, University of Bath, are working in partnership on an exciting and challenging new project to develop a Community Model for Data-Intensive Science.

Ball, A.., 2012. Review of Data Management Lifecycle Models. Research Report. Bath, UK: University of Bath

Implications of new federal directives for data sharing, privacy, compliance, access and good practices for libraries collaborating with researchers

Written by Joanna Ball, academic Services Manager, University of Sussex Library

The key to the Alzheimer's project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately, available to anyone with a computer anywhere in the world.

Dorothea Salo outlines a framework for understanding the complexities of research data and researchers' needs, with emphasis on digital libraries and institutional repositories and data standards and management characteristics and requirements.

IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing associate professor Johan Bollen and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will share the Mellon Foundation grant designed to build upon the Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) project that Bollen began in 2006

highlights a number of initiatives in the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, showing how research data repository infrastructures can be effectively realized through collaboration and sharing of expertise.

new ways of publishing with linked data and metadata