Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in
popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been …

Digital archives are the preferred means for open access to research data. They play
essential roles in knowledge infrastructures—robust networks of people, artifacts, and …

Purpose Taking the researchers' perspective, the purpose of this paper is to examine the
types of context information needed to preserve data's meaning in ways that support data …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Digital libraries can be deployed at many points throughout the life cycles of scientific
research projects from their inception through data collection, analysis, documentation …

Infrastructures are not inherently durable or fragile, yet all are fragile over the long term.
Durability requires care and maintenance of individual components and the links between …

Scientists in all fields face challenges in managing and sustaining access to their research
data. The larger and longer term the research project, the more likely that scientists are to …

For Vannevar Bush, 1945 was an annus mirabilis. His wartime efforts at the Office of
Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to reorganize American science along lines …

Open access to data is commonly required by funding agencies, journals, and public policy,
despite the lack of agreement on the concept of" open data." We present findings from two …

A 5‐year project to study scientific data uses in geography, starting in 1999, evolved into 20
years of research on data practices in sensor networks, environmental sciences, biology …