January Link Roundup

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In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs!

Brianna Marshall

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, better known as SPARC, just released a brand new website with plenty of resources related to open access, open data, and open educational resources.

UW hosted its first data carpentry workshop in early January. Read more about data carpentry (and check out the full curriculum materials!) or browse the workshop’s twitter feed.

Cameron Cook

Michael Schofield invited Brianna and myself to appear on his podcast and talk about the RDS website redesign!  You can listen here.

I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘open’ and what that is in relation to the services RDS provides, I enjoyed Cameron Neylon’s piece about ‘why is open’.

ODI is doing a great ‘year in open data’ series on their blog, here’s one story that talks about infrastructure through the lens of their work with Open Addresses Ltd.

Erin Carrillo

If You Build It, Will They Fund It? Making Research Data Management Sustainable by Ricky Erway and Amanda Rinehart. The authors provide the pros and cons of several funding strategies.

Allan Barclay

For Better Science covers plant scientist, Olivier Voinnet, losing his EMBO Gold medal.

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles with opposing views on data sharing.

William Cross wrote on library involvement in data sharing in Library Journal.