TY - GEN
T1 - Preliminary Analysis of Research Data Policies in Japanese Universities
AU - Fukushima, Kana
AU - Watanabe, Yukiko
AU - Ishita, Emi
AU - Yasuda, Sakura
AU - Suzuki, Tokinori
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Japanese universities are strongly encouraged to formulate policies on research data and many have published research data polices in the last five years. When designing their research data services, universities must bear their institution’s research policy and the standard policy in Japan in mind. This study aimed to clarify the overall trends and characteristics of the research data policies developed by Japanese universities. This study presents a preliminary analysis of 70 research data policies that Japanese universities have formulated and published from March 2020 to June 2024. Policy titles, elements of structure, policy subjects, responsibility for data management, and terms used for researchers’ responsibilities and rights were examined. It transpired that while the elements described were generally common, there were differences in the policy titles and terminology used. Most of the policies incorporated the management and sharing of data, but did not address the early stages of the research process, such as data management planning.
AB - Japanese universities are strongly encouraged to formulate policies on research data and many have published research data polices in the last five years. When designing their research data services, universities must bear their institution’s research policy and the standard policy in Japan in mind. This study aimed to clarify the overall trends and characteristics of the research data policies developed by Japanese universities. This study presents a preliminary analysis of 70 research data policies that Japanese universities have formulated and published from March 2020 to June 2024. Policy titles, elements of structure, policy subjects, responsibility for data management, and terms used for researchers’ responsibilities and rights were examined. It transpired that while the elements described were generally common, there were differences in the policy titles and terminology used. Most of the policies incorporated the management and sharing of data, but did not address the early stages of the research process, such as data management planning.
KW - Data Management
KW - Data Policy
KW - Data Sharing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-0865-2_10
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-0865-2_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85213045954
SN - 9789819608645
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 119
EP - 127
BT - Sustainability and Empowerment in the Context of Digital Libraries - 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Oliver, Gillian
A2 - Frings-Hessami, Viviane
A2 - Du, Jia Tina
A2 - Tezuka, Taro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2024
Y2 - 4 December 2024 through 6 December 2024
ER -