The Realities of Research Data Management
In this report—the fourth and final of OCLC Research’s The Realities of Research Data Management report series—we examine institutional choices for sourcing the provision, and scaling the deployment, of research data management (RDM) services. By sourcing, we mean where RDM services are developed and managed: i.e., locally or by an external provider. By scaling, we mean at what scale will the services be deployed: i.e., at the level of the institution or at scales above or below the institution. In this report, we describe the sourcing and scaling choices made by our case study partners as they acquired RDM capacity and built their RDM service bundles. (RDM services at the University of Edinburgh (U,K.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.), Monash University (Australia), Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) are referenced as examples.)