Research Data Management Faculty Survey Report, University of Waterloo

All ranks of faculty and post-doctoral fellows were included. This survey replicates the survey created and conducted at the University of Toronto.

The goals were to: • determine how University of Waterloo engineering and science faculty and post-doctoral fellows manage and share research data beyond their project • determine how University of Waterloo Library might help to facilitate data management activities and thereby help support our researchers • understand some of the differences in research data management practices and needs across disciplines The results of this survey will also help the library support University Policy 73, Intellectual Property Rights, Section 9, Data Management which is “…concerned with the ownership of, and right to use, original data collected or measured in the course of teaching and research activities involving one or more members of the University.” A Principle noted in Section 9 states that “Members of the University have the obligation to protect and preserve, for a reasonable period of time (defined by the norms of the discipline), and to make available to other scholars and non-commercial users, the data on which their work is based.”