Co-operation with scientists – road to RDM services in the University of Tartu Library

Liisi Lembinen

University of Tartu Library

COAR/SPARC, Porto, 14-16 March, 2015

What am I going to talk about?

• Why?

• When?

• What?

• What is the value?

• What else?

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Why we are doing this?• We did not invent a wheel

• Keeping up with the trends

• OA pioneer in Estonia since 2009

• Open Data only logical step

• Already DSpace + OJS

• Support university

goals – full cycle

of research

Photo credit: Andres Tennus , University of Tartu

What we did in one year• Scientists + library = governmental

funding

• DataCite → DOI →Estonian DataCite Consortium

• Data repository http://datadoi.ut.ee

• Data Librarians + services

• Information literacy includes data https://sisu.ut.ee/teadusandmed

What is the value?

• Scientists needed and found us not vice versa

• Relatively short time

• Data is already in curriculum

• Motivation and competence of librarians

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What else need to be solved?

• 1 academic library (4 universities) cooperation with funders + scientists

• Data policy

• Funding for data

• Evaluation

• We opened a door

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Thank you!

Liisi Lembinen

University of Tartu Library

liisi.lembinen@ut.ee

http://www.ut.ee/ams/living-in-estonia/