OBJECTIVE: The research investigated topic priorities for data literacy training for biomedical researchers and staff. METHODS: An electronic survey was used to assess researchers' level of knowledge related to data literacy skills and the relevance of these skills to their work. RESULTS: Most respondents did not have any formal training in data literacy. Respondents considered most tasks highly relevant to their work but rated their expertise in tasks lower. CONCLUSION: Among this group, researchers have diverse data literacy training needs. Librarians' expertise makes them well suited to provide such training.
OBJECTIVE: The research investigated topic priorities for data literacy training for biomedical researchers and staff. METHODS: An electronic survey was used to assess researchers' level of knowledge related to data literacy skills and the relevance of these skills to their work. RESULTS: Most respondents did not have any formal training in data literacy. Respondents considered most tasks highly relevant to their work but rated their expertise in tasks lower. CONCLUSION: Among this group, researchers have diverse data literacy training needs. Librarians' expertise makes them well suited to provide such training.
Keywords:
Biomedical Research; Data Collection; Data Curation; Education, Continuing; Information Dissemination; Information Storage and Retrieval; Libraries, Medical; Library Services
Authors: Hatef Darabi; Karen McCue; Jonathan Beesley; Kyriaki Michailidou; Silje Nord; Siddhartha Kar; Keith Humphreys; Deborah Thompson; Maya Ghoussaini; Manjeet K Bolla; Joe Dennis; Qin Wang; Sander Canisius; Christopher G Scott; Carmel Apicella; John L Hopper; Melissa C Southey; Jennifer Stone; Annegien Broeks; Marjanka K Schmidt; Rodney J Scott; Artitaya Lophatananon; Kenneth Muir; Matthias W Beckmann; Arif B Ekici; Peter A Fasching; Katharina Heusinger; Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva; Julian Peto; Ian Tomlinson; Elinor J Sawyer; Barbara Burwinkel; Frederik Marme; Pascal Guénel; Thérèse Truong; Stig E Bojesen; Henrik Flyger; Javier Benitez; Anna González-Neira; Hoda Anton-Culver; Susan L Neuhausen; Volker Arndt; Hermann Brenner; Christoph Engel; Alfons Meindl; Rita K Schmutzler; Norbert Arnold; Hiltrud Brauch; Ute Hamann; Jenny Chang-Claude; Sofia Khan; Heli Nevanlinna; Hidemi Ito; Keitaro Matsuo; Natalia V Bogdanova; Thilo Dörk; Annika Lindblom; Sara Margolin; Veli-Matti Kosma; Arto Mannermaa; Chiu-Chen Tseng; Anna H Wu; Giuseppe Floris; Diether Lambrechts; Anja Rudolph; Paolo Peterlongo; Paolo Radice; Fergus J Couch; Celine Vachon; Graham G Giles; Catriona McLean; Roger L Milne; Pierre-Antoine Dugué; Christopher A Haiman; Gertraud Maskarinec; Christy Woolcott; Brian E Henderson; Mark S Goldberg; Jacques Simard; Soo H Teo; Shivaani Mariapun; Åslaug Helland; Vilde Haakensen; Wei Zheng; Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel; Rulla Tamimi; Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen; Robert Winqvist; Irene L Andrulis; Julia A Knight; Peter Devilee; Robert A E M Tollenaar; Jonine Figueroa; Montserrat García-Closas; Kamila Czene; Maartje J Hooning; Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst; Jingmei Li; Yu-Tang Gao; Xiao-Ou Shu; Angela Cox; Simon S Cross; Robert Luben; Kay-Tee Khaw; Ji-Yeob Choi; Daehee Kang; Mikael Hartman; Wei Yen Lim; Maria Kabisch; Diana Torres; Anna Jakubowska; Jan Lubinski; James McKay; Suleeporn Sangrajrang; Amanda E Toland; Drakoulis Yannoukakos; Chen-Yang Shen; Jyh-Cherng Yu; Argyrios Ziogas; Minouk J Schoemaker; Anthony Swerdlow; Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale; Vessela Kristensen; Juliet D French; Stacey L Edwards; Alison M Dunning; Douglas F Easton; Per Hall; Georgia Chenevix-Trench Journal: Am J Hum Genet Date: 2015-06-11 Impact factor: 11.025