Research data management in public universities in Malawi

Abstract

Description

The data is based on a PhD study that investigated how research data has been generated, organised, shared, stored, preserved, accessed and re-used in Malawian public universities with a view to proposing a framework for research data management in universities in Malawi. The objectives of the study were: to determine research data creation, sharing and re-use practices in public universities in Malawi; to investigate research data preservation practices in public universities in Malawi; to investigate the competencies that librarians and researchers need to effectively manage research data; and to find out the challenges that affect the management of research data in public universities in Malawi. The data is in three sets: qualitative data gathered through interviews with directors of research from the universities; quantitative data gathered from librarians and researchers.

Keywords

Libraries, Lecturers, Research Data management, Malawi, Library and Information Studies, Librarianship, Higher Education

Citation

CHAWINGA, WINNER (2020). Research data management in public universities in Malawi. University of Western Cape. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25379/uwc.9173156.v1

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