Engineering Data Repositories and Open Science Compliance: A Guide for Engineering Faculty and Librarians

Adam Lindsley; Shalini Ramachandran; Clara Llebot; Sheree Fu

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Conference: 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Portland, Oregon
Publication Date: June 23, 2024
Start Date: June 23, 2024
End Date: June 26, 2024
Conference Session: Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2
Tagged Division: Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)
Page Count: 17
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--47274
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/47274
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Adam Lindsley Oregon State University orcid.org/0000-0002-6860-6004

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Adam Lindsley is the Engineering Librarian at Oregon State University. He teaches graduate research ethics, science/information literacy for undergraduates, and library research skills for both. Research interests include information literacy, data management, photogrammetry, pedagogy, and learning technology.

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Shalini Ramachandran Loyola Marymount University orcid.org/0000-0002-1226-3946

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Shalini Ramachandran is the Research and Instruction Librarian for STEM at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her research and teaching interests include algorithmic bias, ethical AI, virtual reality for lab instruction, and open science.

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Clara Llebot Oregon State University

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Sheree Fu California State University, Los Angeles

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Sheree Fu is the Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology Librarian at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Abstract

On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released new guidelines on increased public access to the results of federally funded research. The new policy guidelines require immediate public access to data underlying federally funded research upon publication, to the extent possible, within legal, policy, or funder limitations. The OSTP has set December 31, 2025 as the deadline for all agency public access policies for publications and data to be in effect. As engineering and data management specialist librarians, we provide research support and open science guidance to engineering faculty and students and respond to questions about data sharing and data repositories. With the deadline for public access policies for all research data resulting from federally funded research coming up in two years, we decided to investigate the scope and policies of existing engineering data repositories and how they fit the new OSTP requirements.

A literature review we conducted did not yield many articles that covered guidelines for engineering faculty and librarians for depositing research data into appropriate repositories. The purpose of this study is to create an engineering-specific resource on data-sharing that follows good practices. Our goal is to educate on the current landscape of data sharing, data curation, and engineering data deposits to optimize discovery and reuse.

As part of our study methodology, we queried the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) to make an initial repository list to evaluate; selecting for “Engineering Sciences” and filtering for “disciplinary” yielded 193 potential sites to investigate, out of a total of 693. The remaining repositories were further reduced by removing those that did not accept uploads, had location restrictions outside of North America, were no longer functional, or had datasets of interest to engineers, but did not accept uploads from engineers. The second pass pared the list down to 70 repositories, which were evaluated against the OSTP guidelines. We report on the results with respect to existing engineering repositories, and discuss the implications of the OSTP requirements for engineering and data library support.

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Lindsley, A., & Ramachandran, S., & Llebot, C., & Fu, S. (2024, June), Engineering Data Repositories and Open Science Compliance: A Guide for Engineering Faculty and Librarians Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--47274

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AB  - On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released new guidelines on increased public access to the results of federally funded research. The new policy guidelines require immediate public access to data underlying federally funded research upon publication, to the extent possible, within legal, policy, or funder limitations. The OSTP has set December 31, 2025 as the deadline for all agency public access policies for publications and data to be in effect. As engineering and data management specialist librarians, we provide research support and open science guidance to engineering faculty and students and respond to questions about data sharing and data repositories. With the deadline for public access policies for all research data resulting from federally funded research coming up in two years, we decided to investigate the scope and policies of existing engineering data repositories and how they fit the new OSTP requirements. 

A literature review we conducted did not yield many articles that covered guidelines for engineering faculty and librarians for depositing research data into appropriate repositories. The purpose of this study is to create an engineering-specific resource on data-sharing that follows good practices. Our goal is to educate on the current landscape of data sharing, data curation, and engineering data deposits to optimize discovery and reuse. 

As part of our study methodology, we queried the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) to make an initial repository list to evaluate; selecting for “Engineering Sciences” and filtering for “disciplinary” yielded 193 potential sites to investigate, out of a total of 693. The remaining repositories were further reduced by removing those that did not accept uploads, had location restrictions outside of North America, were no longer functional, or had datasets of interest to engineers, but did not accept uploads from engineers. The second pass pared the list down to 70 repositories, which were evaluated against the OSTP guidelines. We report on the results with respect to existing engineering repositories, and discuss the implications of the OSTP requirements for engineering and data library support.

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