University of Illinois

Researchers at the University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Johns Hopkins University Libraries will use this grant to better understand the motivations, needs, priorities, and workflows of small scientific research environments. Many libraries and data repositories are developing new services to support scientific data management planning and data preservation. But not all scientists have access to such services, particularly in “small science” research sites, and the libraries that provide such services cannot effectively identify and curate all worthy data. Findings from this research will be used to develop and test a Site Based Data Curation Framework of recommended policies and processes that promote productive and successful relationships between scientific research teams, libraries, and data repositories.