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Contents
IT Futures conference
Aquabrowser
Simon Bains heads Digital Library
New Leadership and Management Framework
IS Seminar: 'Adding Value'
Multi-Media support evolving
LOCKSS, CLOCKSS and PEPRS
Edinburgh DataShare
Other news from EDINA
Parallel Universes
ECDF and research computing
HECToR and EPCC
EPCC NEWS
eProcurement Scotland
DCC united again; Turner prize
Makeover for MyEd
Our new Main Library
IT skills development
A taste of electronic marking
BCS meeting: Microsoft Security
IS iskills launched
Langlands & Bell at Talbot Rice
Virtual Worlds 2008
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Edinburgh DataShare: open for business
"Publishing data long-term with an accompanying journal publication
can produce a large number of citations which will be good for your
career in the Research Excellence Framework" -- said Michael Wilson, a
researcher associated with the MRC Psycholinguistic Database, who
presented this finding at the e-Science All-Hands Meeting in Edinburgh
last month; see
http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/programme/download.cfm?id=954&p=ppt
[Powerpoint file]
Edinburgh DataShare is an institutional data repository set up by the
Data Library to help researchers do just this. It uses the same DSpace
software as the Edinburgh Research Archive, ERA, and operates in tandem
with the Publications Repository to provide a place for researchers to
share the datasets on which their published papers are based.
Reasons for sharing data include: to comply with requests from
publishers or funders; to create a formal record; to provide a fuller
record of the research; to preserve the data for the longer term; and to
have reliable access to one's own data and documentation for future use.
Edinburgh researchers who wish to share their data can register for
an account through EASE -- by setting up an account at
http://datashare.edina.ac.uk/dspace/
Alternatively, email datashare@ed.ac.uk.
Robin Rice, Stuart Macdonald (Information Services)
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