*New* Survey on Federal Data Use and Repositories
Posted: 6/5/2025 ()
Recently, the Office of Research sponsored a panel and discussion on the challenges surrounding the loss of data, including data that is removed from publicly available sites, national surveys that are canceled, and standard survey measures or data changed for non-scientific reasons. In addition, the UW Libraries has been actively engaged in helping researchers find and preserve data. This survey, created jointly by the UW Faculty Council on Research (FCR), the UW Libraries, and the Office of Research, seeks to learn more about your research needs in this domain of concerns and challenges. FCR, the Office of Research, and the UW Libraries will summarize the results from this survey over the summer and present to the Faculty Senate in AUT 2025. We will use the survey results to inform efforts to safeguard data needed for research and to educate the UW community on alternative locations for accessing and securely storing data.