Unlocking Thesis Data update DOI: 10.15123/PUB.4314 Stephen Grace orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671 DataCite Client Meeting, London, 6 July 2015

Outline What is the Unlocking Thesis Data project? What have we done so far? What do we plan? Live minting of thesis DOIs at Universities of East London, Southampton and Glasgow Questions and feedback

Introducing students to the new norm of data sharing and identifiers Scope and Gap Introducing students to the new norm of data sharing and identifiers Students – Institutions – Funders Enhancing national scale thesis discovery to make space for data/software Tracking student careers via ORCiD Better tracking of theses/data through citations and metrics 04/12/2018 Title of presentation (Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide)

For funders: value for money, impact reporting Impact and Benefits For students: bridge to norms of being a career researcher, visibility and citations For funders: value for money, impact reporting For institutions: profile of doctoral research For researchers: availability of valuable research content, replication, building on previous research, repurposing data/software, cross-discipline 04/12/2018 Title of presentation (Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide)

Leveraging sustainability of ORCiD and DOI systems Not a problem to fix, but an opportunity to embrace the inevitable world of identifiers and data sharing at a national scale This will become the new business-as-usual for HEIs across the EThOS network Existing and agreed standards, matching with other developments like RIOXX, Casrai, Jisc Pathfinders etc Leveraging sustainability of ORCiD and DOI systems 04/12/2018 Title of presentation (Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide)

What we found from the survey 1 Lot of interest – 49 responses =35% 59% still require both p- and e-copies, often duplicating cataloguing effort MD created by student, administrator or library/repository 24 volunteered as case studies Analysis at http://dx.doi.org/10.15123/PUB.4274, data at http://dx.doi.org/10.15123/DATA.12

What we found from the survey 2 How ready are you to begin assigning DOI identifiers to your theses? N=49

What we found from the survey 3 Little or no guidance on supplementary files (aka data), and thus little incentive for students to offer data, so few examples One DOI or many? “We will probably use a single record with single DOI” “Separate record in data repository for each significant data collection, linked to thesis in publications IR” “ … users will be free to choose granularity of DOI minting.”

Case studies University of East London University of Southampton London School of Economics and Political Science University of the Arts London University of Bristol University of Leicester Mix of platforms Mix of DOI and ORCID readiness Mix of metadata creation – student, administrator, library Publishing next week so check the blog!

Outputs, milestones and indicators of success Phase 1: survey results, 5 case studies overlaid with Persistent Identifiers, synthesis and recommendations for next steps Phase 2: draft recommendations to HEIs, proof of concept in 3 HEIs, clinics to work through institutional implementation, solution for smaller institutions Phase 3: final metadata requirements, software development of EPrints, DSpace and possibly others, EThOS itself, toolkit and guidance for implementing across national network 04/12/2018 Title of presentation (Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide)

Live minting of DOIs University of East London thesis University of Southampton thesis University of Glasgow thesis

Questions and feedback Guidance on what could/should/must be deposited? One record or more? Opportunities for efficiencies?

Thank you Stephen Grace, UTD Project Manager http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671 With thanks to Jisc for funding UTD, and to my project team colleagues Michael Whitton, Sara Gould and Rachael Kotarski Email s.grace@uel.ac.uk or graces5@lsbu.ac.uk Blog at unlockingthesisdata.wordpress.com Twitter @StephenGraceful