Dealing with data: a case study on information and data management literacy

PLoS Biol. 2012;10(5):e1001339. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001339. Epub 2012 May 29.

Abstract

The launch of the eagle-i Consortium, a collaborative network for sharing information about research resources, such as protocols and reagents, provides a vivid demonstration of the challenges that researchers, libraries and institutions face in making their data available to others.

Publication types

  • Research Support, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Information Literacy*
  • Information Management / methods
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Interdisciplinary Communication
  • Professional Role