Research data in scholarly practices: Observations of an interdisciplinary Horizon2020 project

Abstract

My research project belongs within Library and Information Science, in the area of Scholarly Communication. It started in October 2016 and will continue for three years. The study focuses on researchers and research data - more specifically on research data sharing in the scholarly practices of an interdisciplinary research project mandated by a data policy. A Horizon2020-project including four different disciplines will be investigated. These EU-projects are by default obligated to develop data management plans (DMPs). Few studies have been done on this subject and the questions to answer are many. I have chosen to focus on the following questions: what does data mean to the different participating disciplines? How do the researchers work with the data of the project and how do they share the data between the represented disciplines? What are the effects of the data policy on the daily research work?.