Last week, a panel of experts at the National Academies of Science discussed the role of libraries in curation, preservation, and access to research data.
The discussion took place under the auspices of the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information. The Board held its first meeting last year to carry out its mission “to improve the management, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society”. The Board is sponsored by the Library of Congress along with the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Defense Technical Information Center.
At the Board’s meeting on June 3-4, members and guests examined issues relating to those subjects. The Board heard presentations from leaders of the Association of Research Libraries and the American Society for Information Science and Technology (which are ALA affiliates) as well as the Coalition for Networked Information (of which ALA is a member). Presenters noted progress toward public access for publicly-funded research, a goal ALA supports.
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