Line Pouchard|Marianne Stowell Bracke
An Analysis of Selected Data Practices: A Case Study of the Purdue College of Agriculture.
paper describes survey data practices given purdue college agriculture data practices concern many researchers new governmental funding mandates require data management plans institution providing resources comply mandates survey attempted answer questions characteristics data held respondents tools respondents use managing analyzing manipulating data students primarily learn research data management skills survey documents statistically significant difference data holding sizes faculty graduate students msexcel still analysis tool choice results also showed many researchers college thinking libraries resource data management practices preservation data literacy instruction graduate students survey results may inform libraries developing new data services instruction also highlighting need additional research data practices specific disciplinary areas types researchers abstract author