News

There was a service outage on September 19-20. The DMPTool service was unavailable from approximately 6:30pm on Sept 19 until 9am on Sept 20. Among other problems, we did not have adequate monitoring in place so that the data center staff was unaware of the problem. We have corrected this problem and now have 24/7 monitoring in place.

Use stats

We continue to add users—250 new users logged into the DMPTool in September. There is now a total of almost 3100 users, and they’ve created 2,645 plans total. 3 more universities customized the DMPTool for their researchers, bringing the total to 26. Over 60 have configured their campus single-signon for the DMPTool. See the map of our participating organizations: http://bit.ly/L85sKj

Here’s a graph of overall use through Sept 2012:

New publication

Starr, Joan; Willett, Perry; Federer, Lisa; Horning, Claudia; and Bergstrom, Mary Linn (2012) “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California,” Journal of eScience Librarianship: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 7. doi:10.7191/jeslib.2012.1014
Available at: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol1/iss2/7

This article describes the full suite of services provided by CDL (including the DMPTool) in the context of the research data lifecycle.