Use DRO to showcase your research data
If you are a Deakin researcher, you may be interested in contributing to the Library's Seeding the Commons project, which aims to publicise research collections by providing descriptions of research data in Research Data Australia (RDA).
Library staff are working with Deakin researchers to provide descriptive metadata of Deakin research datasets to RDA, a set of web pages describing data collections produced by or relevant to Australian researchers. RDA is designed to promote visibility of research data collections and to encourage their re-use.
Consider the following benefits that participation will bring to you:
Increase the impact of your research
- Reuse of your data increases its impact
- Citation of your data acknowledges your contribution
The integrity of your research is recognised
- Providing access to your datasets enables others to validate your findings
- Good stewardship of public resources used to conduct research is demonstrated
- It supports the responsible communication of research results.
Support future use
- Your data may be reused by researchers in other fields for different purposes
- It can be discovered many years in the future by others
- It will be easier to locate by others and you!
Fulfil obligations
- The Australian Code for Responsible Conduct of Research suggests that research data should be made available for use by other researchers unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy or confidentiality matters.
- The Code also requires you to maintain a catalogue of research data in an accessible form.
- The ARC discovery grants funding rules states that the Final Report must outline how data arising from the Project has been made publicly accessible where appropriate
- The NH & MRC notes that if a researcher is not intending to deposit the data from a project in a repository within a six month period, s/he should include the reasons in the project’s Final Report.
Improve opportunities for collaboration
- Researchers in different fields may become aware of your research by discovering your data collections
You still retain control of your data
- You decide who can see your data under what conditions
- You can place an embargo on access until you publish
- You can ensure valuable data collections are made publicly accessible once you have completed your research
- You should retain your data collection on your School or Institute server
- You may transfer copies of data collections that you wish to make publicly accessible
- Web accessible share drive within your School
- Repository or archive (Subject, or institutional e.g. Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA), Deakin Research Online)
- Purpose built shared facility such as a data enclave
- A trusted cloud computing facility e.g. ARCS Compute Cloud or Duracloud
For further information and assistance, contact the Library DRO Data team:
Email: drodata@deakin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 5227 8231
