Research Data Management in Supporting Knowledge Sharing among Univesity Researchers

Abstract

Research data management is an important concern for institutions and several platforms to support data deposits have emerged. Thus, many research institutions have established or plan to establish research data curation services as part of their Institutional Repositories (IRs). In this paper we start by viewing the current practices in the data management workflow in one of public university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted using questionnaire for data collection among staff, researcher and postgraduate students from Public University in Malaysia. The finding shows most respondents have awareness in research data management. The finding also provided useful information to a better understanding regarding research data management. Limitation and suggestion for future research are discussed.