Digital Curation and Digital Preservation Works
Digital Scholarship has published the following bibliographies about digital curation and digital preservation, which includes coverage of research data issues. These publications are open access (i.e., free of charge) and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License or under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Digital/Print Books and Book Supplements
Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography (2021). This selective bibliography presents over 800 English-language articles and books. It covers topics such as research data creation, metadata, provenance, repositories, management, policies, support services, funding agency requirements, open access, peer review, publication, citation, sharing, reuse, and preservation. Most sources were published from 2009 through 2019. It is available as a paperback PDF file, a website, and a a website PDF with live links..
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement (2013). This selective bibliography presents over 130 English-language articles, books, and technical reports published in 2012. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. It is available as a website and a a website PDF with live links..
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (2012): This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources were published from 2000 through 2011. It is available as a EPUB file, a low-cost paperback, a paperback PDF file, a website, and a website PDF with live links. "Librarians and scholars who are concerned with managing digital resources and preserving them for future use will find a crash course on the subject in this bibliography. . . . This book is recommended for librarians working with original digital resources, scholars interested in digital repositories, and students in the field." - Paul M. Blobaum, Journal of the Medical Library Association 101, no. 2 (2013): 158.
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 (2011): This selective bibliography presents over 500 English-language articles, books, and technical reports. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources were published from 2000 through 2010. It is available as a low-cost paperback and a paperback PDF file. "If you're looking for a reading list that will keep you busy from now until the end of time, this is your one-stop shop for all things digital preservation." - Helen Bailey, Preservation Services at Dartmouth College weblog, February 21, 2012.
Digital Bibliographies/Webliographies
Academic Libraries and Research Data Management Bibliography (2023): This selective bibliography includes over 345 selected English-language articles and books that are useful in understanding how academic libraries plan for, implement, provide, evaluate, and conduct studies about research data management (RDM) services. Most sources have been published from 2012 through 2023. It includes full abstracts for works under certain Creative Commons Licenses. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Digital Curation Certificate and Master's Degree Programs (2023): This document describes digital curation certificate and master's degree programs in North America, identifying those that are online. It does not cover individualized certificate programs, such as those at Indiana University Bloomington or the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Nor does it cover digital curation specializations within MLS and other master's degree programs in iSchools. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography (2022): This bibliography presents over 225 selected English-language articles and books that are useful in understanding the publication and citation of research data. It also provides limited coverage of closely related topics, such as research data identifiers (e.g., DOI) and scholarly metrics. Most sources have been published from 2009 through 2021. It includes full abstracts for works under certain Creative Commons Licenses. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography (2021): This bibliography presents over 200 English-language articles and books that are useful in understanding the sharing and reuse of research data. Most sources have been published from 2009 through 2021. It includes full abstracts for works under certain Creative Commons Licenses. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Research Data Curation Bibliography (2012-2019): This selective bibliography presents over 750 English-language articles, books, and technical reports. It covers topics such as research data creation, metadata, provenance, repositories, management, policies, support services, funding agency requirements, open access, peer review, publication, citation, sharing, reuse, and preservation. Most sources were published from 2009 through 2018. It includes full abstracts for works under certain Creative Commons Licenses. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Digital Curation Resource Guide (2012). This resource guide presents selected websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation. It presents selected English-language websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation. It covers academic programs, discussion lists and groups, file formats and guidelines, glossaries, metadata standards and vocabularies, models, organizations, policies, research data management, serials and blogs, services and vendor software, software and tools, and training. Complements the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (2010-2011): This selective bibliography presents over 500 English-language articles, books, and technical reports. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through February 2011. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links. "an excellent place to survey much of the available research on a topic related to data curation. - Julia Flanders and Trevor Muñoz. "An Introduction to Humanities Data Curation." In DH Curation Guide: A Community Resource Guide to Data Curation in the Digital Humanities, 2012.
Social Media
Digital Curation LinkedIn Group: This group discusses research data curation and other digital curation issues.
DigitalKoans (2005-present): This weblog provides news and commentary on weekdays about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, research data management, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. It has been published since April 2005 and has over 15,000 posts (over 5,000 job announcements). "This site is recommended for several types of users. Those who are new to digital libraries or librarians interested in digital librarianship will find this site to be a good overview and if a particular topic proves interesting, it is easy to find more information on that topic. Those who work in digital libraries will find this site useful for finding information on a particular topic in one place. . . . For job seekers this is an excellent site, with job ads placed almost daily under "digital library jobs" and "library IT jobs." - Maura Valentino Technical Services Quarterly 30, no. 2 (2013): 229-231.
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