Research data management in Turkey: A survey to build an effective national data repository

2020-04-29
DOĞAN, GÜLEDA
TAŞKIN, ZEHRA
Aydınoğlu, Arsev Umur
Research data management is an important topic for funding agencies, universities and researchers. In this context, the main aim of this study is to collect preliminary information for Aperta, which is being developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, to fulfil the following goals: determine the research data management awareness levels of researchers in Turkey; understand current research data management practices in their research environments; and find out their experiences of policy issues. For this, a questionnaire was distributed to 37,223 researchers, with 1577 researchers completing it. The results indicated that researchers who spend more time with data have more concerns about data management issues. The levels of experience of creating a data management plan were quite low. The importance of this study lies in how it is able to show the current research data management practices of Turkish scholars during the new repository's foundational development stage.
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Citation Formats
G. DOĞAN, Z. TAŞKIN, and A. U. Aydınoğlu, “Research data management in Turkey: A survey to build an effective national data repository,” IFLA JOURNAL-INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/29901.