Amount of scientific data is growing every year. Access, use and curation of large data sets are becoming increasingly important. Ensuring open access to the data behind the research literature will help to build a scholarly communication system that supports the needs of researchers. As Open Data moves to the forefront of scholarly communication, librarians, administrators, and researchers have to considere new access policies for data and data curation issues. Raising awareness and understanding of data issues amongst researchers, providing archiving and preservation services for datasets, and developing a new professional strand of practice – data librarianship are key challenges for the library and information science community.

Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown, Key Perspectives Ltd: Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs 

DCC: Infrastructure Planning and Data Curation: A comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data

MIT’s guide on Data Management and Publishing

Science Commons

Open Data Commons

SPARC Open Data Email Discussion List

The Open Data Foundation (ODaF)

International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)

Special IQ: Moving Research Data Into and Out of Institutional Repositories, May 12th, 2009

Research data management guidance - a new set of web pages written as guidance for university researchers on research data management & sharing, published as part of a re-launched University of Edinburgh Information Services website.