Data from Interviews with Data Services Librarians on Data Management Plans (DMPs)

The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand the perspective of data services librarians on data management plans. The interviews with 10 data librarians presents overall responsibilities as well as perspectives on Data Management Plans (DMPs). DMPs are formal documents describing the roles and activities for managing data during and after research. DMPs are now a required research criterion by many funding agencies globally. A purposive sample of Data Librarians from the top ten US private and public universities were recruited for interviews using an open-ended questionnaire related to their job duties and perspectives on data management plan implementation and evaluation. Responses from ten participants were conducted, transcribed, anonymized, and coded in NVivo.

This dataset comprises 12 elements:

• Dataset README file
• Transcript of Participant 1
• Transcript of Participant 2
• Transcript of Participant 3
• Transcript of Participant 4
• Transcript of Participant 5
• Transcript of Participant 6
• Transcript of Participant 7
• Transcript of Participant 8
• Transcript of Participant 9
• Transcript of Participant 10
• Codebook