Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Issues in the Secondary Use of Research Data

This issue contains the winner of a paper contest set up by IASSIST. Lisa Neidert from the University of Michigan wrote about the winning paper:

Announcement:

Strategic Plan Publication Award The review committee for the IASSIST Strategic Plan Publication Award is happy to announce a winner for this year’s competition. The winner is Margaret Law of the University of Alberta for her paper “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Issues in the Secondary Use of Resarch Data,” which explores issues in the long-term access to data. She discusses the costs and benefits in the secondary use of data. Her paper is based on the Canadian case. Each country in our international community of data professionals has different legal issues related to confidentiality, privacy, and ethics of data use. The careful description of the Canadian case allows IASSIST to develop specific and more general points of advocacy on data access. The committee was very pleased with the submissions to this competition. The papers focused on access, documentation, and advocacy. All of the papers were excellent and we look forward to publishing them in future issues of IQ.

Lisa Neidert,
Chair, IASSIST Strategic Plan Publication Award committee

Our lead article is the paper by Margaret Law that you might have heard about earlier. Other good papers being input to the competition have been appearing in earlier issues and will be appearing in coming issues of the IQ. And “thank you” to the Publication Award committee for their work.