2022-2023
This exploratory project explored the role of university libraries in ensuring that FAIR principles are applied to software and other non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) (e.g. film, creative writing, website design), including areas where there were opportunities to improve or expand practice. The project also explored how the CARE principles should be applied to these outputs.
The project had two objectives:
- Explore the roles academic libraries can or should play in describing, archiving, preserving, and facilitating discovery of and access to software and other NTROs.
- Develop a framework for academic libraries that describes how libraries can apply FAIR and CARE principles to NTROs.
The project situated the role of the university library in the broader open research landscape. It explored how the library’s work relates to the work of other bodies, both within and beyond the researcher’s institution. The project produced a framework that guides CAUL Member institutions on how to increase the proportion of NTROs by Australian university researchers that are appropriately described, archived, preserved and made accessible. The project also produced a comprehensive report, and the data collected by the project team is openly accessible.
This project was an initiative of the Advancing Open Scholarship Program.
Project team
- Gary Pearce, Monash University (lead)
- Julie Clift, Curtin University
- Peter Neish, University of Melbourne
- Piyachat Ratana, Macquarie University
- Thomas Reeson, Australian Catholic University