Erin Foster & Associate Editor Sally Gore highlighting JeSLIB at #RDAP26! 🎉

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Happy RDAP Summit to all who celebrate! 🎉 #RDAP26

All RDAP Summit presenters & attendees are encouraged to submit proposals for our special issue. More information will be shared after the summit.

For now, enjoy the summit & start thinking about the amazing work you will share! #DataLibs 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻👏

We are gearing up for #RDAP26! Hope to see you online at our panel presentation on "Forging New Roles for Data Librarians in Open Access Publishing" Thursday, April 16. We'll have some exciting new things to share 🦋 rdapassociation.org/summit/sched...

Thanks so much Allie and @jeslibjournal.bsky.social for such a lovely review of my book!

We have published a Book Review of @kbriney.bsky.social's book "The Data Management Workbook" written by our very own Data Editor Allie Tatarian 📘 Check it out #DataLibs! doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Read more about @kbriney.bsky.social and her book in this @pelagic.bsky.social interview 💬 pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/news/t...

Cover and look inside the The Data Management Workbook

New Book Review! 📘 "Review of The Data Management Workbook by Kristin Briney" by Allie Tatarian #DataLibs #DataManagement #BookReview doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Commentary! 🗣️ Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers by Venice Bayrd, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Deb McCaffrey doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Commentary! 🧰 Forging Resilience and Building Capacity: Professional Development in Early-Career Research Data Services by Samantha Harmon doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Commentary! 💬 Resilient by Design: Assessment Strategies for Data Services from RDAP 2025 by Rose Fredrick doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New eScience in Action! 📂 Building Open Qualitative Science with Open Curriculum by Nathaniel D. Porter and Sebastian Karcher doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New eScience in Action! 🔐 Identifying Restricted Data Repositories Supporting Mediated Access via Data Usage Agreements by Mary K. Oberlies and Megan Potterbusch doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📊 The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives by Cara Key, Diana E. Park, Jane Nichols, Clara Llebot, and L.K. Borland doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🗄️ Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data by Deb McCaffrey, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Venice Bayrd doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📝 Strengthening Data Management Systems: Insights from the Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Project's Institutional Pilots by Matthew Murray, Briana Wham, Matthew Harp, Matthew B. Carson, and Sara Gonzales doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🏗️ Investigating Graduate Mentor Perspectives on Data Information Literacy and Stewardship in Undergraduate Engineering Research Projects by Joreen Arigye, Wei Zakharov, Carla B. Zoltowski, Sarah Sewell, and Senay Purzer doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🔎 The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications by Bryan M. Gee doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📇 Building a Lightweight Dataset Catalog in Digital Commons by Claire Warner, Amy Reese, and Marla Hertz doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🧑‍🏫 Investigating and Addressing the Needs of Research Support Staff by Alissa Link Cilfone and Jen Ferguson doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Editorial! 🗞️ Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit by Jennifer Chaput, Yijing Angel Tang, Wei Zakharov, and Heather Charlotte Owen doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Published: Volume 15 Issue 1 📕 Our 8th Special Issue for RDAP highlights works related to #RDAP25 Summit. These 12 articles showcase how data librarians continue to adapt to changing circumstances and expectations. Look back at #RDAP25! publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/news/32

Announcing our #RDAP25 Special Issue with RDAP 🔥

New Editorial! 🗞️ Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit by Jennifer Chaput, Yijing Angel Tang, Wei Zakharov, and Heather Charlotte Owen doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

#DataLibs #ResearchData #RDAPSummit

Blue and white watercolor painting of a snowy lake and distant trees and hills with the text "Happy Holidays and New Year" "Your Journal of eScience Librarianship Colleagues."

Happy Holidays and New Year from the entire #JeSLIB Editorial Team! Sending you peace this festive season. Please find time to take a break, relax, and rejuvenate. Whether that's reading a good book or JeSLIB articles! 📕 See you in 2026! 🎉

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Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research Objective: Many researchers use cloud file storage platforms such as Box and Google Drive as the sole data management platform for all of their research data throughout the course of their projects. R...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 5️⃣ Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research by @tobinmagle.bsky.social & Deb McCafferey #DataLibs #DataStorage #CloudFileStorage doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Building a Trustworthy Data Repository: CoreTrustSeal Certification as a Lens for Service Improvements Objective: The university library aims to provide university researchers with a trustworthy institutional repository for sharing data. The library sought CoreTrustSeal certification in order to measur...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 4️⃣ Building a Trustworthy Data Repository: CoreTrustSeal Certification as a Lens for Service Improvements by Cara Key, Clara Llebot & Michael Boock #DataLibs #DataRepositories #CoreTrustSeal doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 This dataset contains database pricing and agreements received through public records requests made to members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and a few non-ARL research libraries. Pric...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 3️⃣ Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 by Curtis Brundy and Joel B. Thornton #OpenAccess #DataLibs doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study We provide an overview of the use of machine-learning and artificial intelligence at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). After surveying our major initiatives to date, which include the ful...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 2️⃣ Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study by Clifford B. Anderson and Jim Duran @vanderbilt.edu #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #IMLS doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Understanding how to identify and manage personal identifying information (PII) to further data interoperability Respect for research participant rights is a key aspect for consideration when creating and utilizing interoperable data. From that perspective, requirements for sharing research data often call for t...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 1️⃣ Understanding how to identify and manage personal identifying information (PII) to further data interoperability by Zixin Nie #DataLibs #PII doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

World map from Google Maps showing JeSLIB article access (downloads and views) counts for November 2025. The spectrum of counts is shown from dark blue (highest) to light blue (lowest). The top 5 downloads come from Vietnam, China, United States, Brazil, and Argentina. 136 countries and territories are represented. Visualization created in Looker Studio.

Happy Holidays #DataLibs! ☃️ Explore our November stats & catch up on our latest publications.

📊 Stats: 37,043 article HTML views and 480,967 article & materials downloads!

🗺️ Readership Map: lookerstudio.google.com/s/rwQ49NIRAao

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