1. Introduction to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) CQU Librarians workshop, 11 February 2015 Kathryn Unsworth – Data Librarian 1 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

2. ANDS at a glance  In operation since 2009, working with publicly funded research institutions & organisations  Funded by Commonwealth under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) through to June 2015  Collaboration between Monash, ANU, CSIRO and governed by a Steering Committee  Staff in Melbourne, Canberra, WA, SA, NSW & QLD 2

3. A little more about ANDS… ANDS is helping through its leadership role, to create a cohesive national collection of research resources and a richer data environment that:  Makes better use of Australia’s research outputs  Enables Australian researchers to easily publish, discover, access and use data  Enables new and more efficient research 3

4. ANDS Purpose To make Australia’s research data assets more valuable for its researchers, research institutions and the nation. 4

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6. ANDS website 6 http://ands.org.au/index.html

7. Research Data Australia 7

8. ANDS resources…  Guides on the ANDS website Guides on the ANDS website  ANDS run workshops/seminars ANDS run workshops/seminars  ANDS webinars (YouTube channel)YouTube channel  Register for andsUPandsUP  ANDS share (newsletter) ANDS share  Contact your ANDS Outreach Officer – Kathryn Unsworth for CQU (kathryn.unsworth@ands.org.au) 8