Library Science Talk - The role of a research library supporting research data management

by Ignasi Labastida Juan (Universitat de Barcelona)

Thursday 18 Sept 2025, 09:30 → 10:30 Europe/Zurich

Library (CERN)

This Talk will take place in English in Geneva, at CERN, right after the OS Fair 2025, and on Zoom.

For online attendance the registration is not required. Registration required for in-person attendance (register below).

Abstract: 

For many years the management of research data was a duty mainly performed within research groups. However, in the last decade, this task has become relevant when funders have identified it as a key element to make research outputs more reusable and therefore to show the potential of increasing the value of their investment in research.  Since then, one of the main goals of funders is to make research data as optimal to reuse as possible taking into account some of the possible restrictions that may arise for privacy, confidentiality or security, among other aspects. Sharing research data for reuse might be not an easy task and, in many cases, libraries have provided their resources and expertise to play a relevant role in trying to achieve funders' goals. In this session we will introduce the work developed at the library of the University of Barcelona to support researchers in managing their research data.

 

Speaker: Ignasi Labastida | University of Barcelona

Ignasi Labastida PhD in Physics, he is currently the Rector’s Delegate for Scientific Publications and Open Science at the University of Barcelona and Chair of the INFO Policy Group at the League of European Research Universities (LERU). He is a member of the Open Science Committee at the Spanish National Rector’s Conference. 

He has been working for more than 15 years heading the research support at the Library of the University of Barcelona where he has contributed to develop the open access and research data institutional policies and to establish the services to implement them. Along his experience in Open Science practices, he is also an expert on open licensing as the first public leader of the Creative Commons in Spain.

 

The Zentralbibliothek Zurich, the CERN Scientific Information Service, and AILIS (Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists, Geneva) jointly organize the Library Science Talks. A programme of talks for 2025 can be found on the AILIS website.