Chief Data Scientist… that’s a good title! The United States has named it’s first Chief Data Scientist – D.J. Patil. His official title is Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Read Dr. Patil’s memorandum Unleashing the Power of Data to Serve the American Read More

If your academic communities and libraries are interested in data, research data management, research data services…then you will be excited about this new initiative from JISC:  Research Data Spring. It is a project to support  research data management for UK universities. The reason for excitement is what libraries strive for – to ” support the Read More

US Department of Energy Public Access Plan was released on July 24, 2014. [Plan] The Department of Energy (DOE) has implemented their own Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES – Beta) as a repository for federally funded research. In US Department of Energy Announces Public Access Plan (David Crotty, Aug. 4, 2014), Read More