Open Data, Diversity Data: Diversity Scholars and Campus Library Research Data Services

Abstract

Practices and policies around research and scholarship are changing to better address our diverse society’s critical issues; among these changes is the expectation that research data be made more accessible to interested communities. Diversity scholarship is especially important to consider in this work as it furthers our understanding of historical and contemporary issues related to identity, culture, power, oppression and inequality, and it often involves marginalized or vulnerable communities. We report outcomes of a research project examining diversity scholars’ data practices and needs, and share a toolkit that librarians can use to help guide data services they provide to their campus researchers.