The university contribution to Research Data Management in a globalized world

On Thursday, June 20, Diana Perdomo, a librarian at the National University of Colombia, presented the results of a comparative study of the GDI in Latin American universities and the United Kingdom. Watch the webinar recording here.

In this presentation, Diana Perdomo explained the role of university libraries in GDI, sharing how universities contribute to GDI and what alternatives they offer researchers for its preservation, funding and visibility:

• The leading Universities provide their communities with template models and schemes for the Data Management Plan (PGD), based on guides that cover the entire data life cycle.

• Universities have implemented processes and procedures based on FAIR principles for researchers, which has increased funding opportunities.

• GDI promotional strategies by universities could increase participation in Latin American countries, following the example of the United Kingdom, which leads in GDI policies in its universities, thus seeking to increase institutional visibility by promoting a culture of open access and generation of new knowledge.

• Institutional repositories have supported researchers in publishing their data. Guided services and resources facilitate storage, guarantee consultation, accessibility, recovery and reuse.

• The synergy of the different actors within each institution, region or country to implement good GDI practices allows saving efforts and generating strategies that reduce the possibility of data being forgotten, of making hasty decisions, of incorrectly using resources, reports, delay processes, among other cases (Bhimrao Gajbe, et al., 2021).

Perdomo also presented the panorama and initiatives of GDI in Colombia. Recently, Colombia adopted the National Open Science Policy, which emphasizes the importance of promoting sustainable open access to scientific and academic content, which guarantees security in the traceability of information to improve the search dynamics for users. In addition, he shared the “PAPYRUS” project, an initiative to promote networking, promote open science in Colombia and make national production visible in international scenarios.

About the speaker:

Diana Perdomo is a librarian, information analyst and evaluator of Degree Projects at the National University of Colombia. She has 16 years of experience in information indexing and analysis activities, management of institutional repositories, metadata normalization, increasing web visibility and positioning in international harvesters, directories and rankings. In addition, she provides training to students and researchers in tools such as Turnitin, Mendeley and APA, as well as in the revision of written works. She teaches specialized workshops in the use of bibliometric databases such as Scopus, VOSviewer, TOS and WOS, as well as in Data Management and technological surveillance.