Research Data Access & Preservation
RDAP (Research Data Access & Preservation) supports an engaged community of information professionals committed to creating, maintaining, advancing, and teaching best practices for research data, access, and preservation.
The RDAP community brings together a variety of individuals, including data managers and curators, librarians, archivists, researchers, educators, students, technologists, and data scientists from academic institutions, data centers, funding agencies, and industry who represent a wide range of STEM disciplines, social sciences, and humanities.
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Call for RDAP Action Committee Volunteers
Looking to dive deeper into RDAP? We're looking for volunteers to join our eight Action Committees. Open to current RDAP members only.
RDAP Happenings: January 2025
The January 2025 includes Esther Plomb's feature article, The Turing Way: Towards reproducible, ethical and collaborative research.
Journal of eScience Librarianship: RDAP Summit 2024
JeSLIB's latest volume features articles and commentary highlighting works from the 2024 RDAP Summit.
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