READ ME File For 'Dataset supporting the PSDI pilot survey - case study 4 - survey analysis & ELN data'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2437

Date that the file was created: March, 2022

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: Dr Samantha Kanza, University of Southampton Orcid: 0000-0002-4831-9489

Date of data collection: 31/01/2022-13/03/2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: International

Related projects: Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI)

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY

Recommended citation for the data:

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: Samantha Kanza, Cerys Willoughby, Nicola J. Knight, Colin L. Bird, Jeremy G. Frey, Simon J. Coles
TITLE: Digital Research Notebooks: Can they replace paper?
JOURNAL: Royal Society of Chemistry: Digital Discovery
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN:

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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:

- PSDI_Survey_Questions.pdf - Survey Questions
- PSDI_CSSurvey_Responses.xlsx - Anonymised Survey Results

This dataset contains supporting information for the survey conducted by the Physical Science Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative www.psdi.ac.uk. 

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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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There were 8 case studies conducted as part of this project, this survey was designed predominantly by the researchers in case study 4, in conjunction with collaborators from case study 8. This survey was designed to collect data about current working practices in the physical sciences domain, looking at how scientists are recording and sharing their data, what software they use, what structures they work with, what features they require and how things have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Ethics approval was obtained from the University of Southampton Ethics and Research Governance Team through application ERGO/FEPS/70431 and our participants were provided with our participant information sheet and data protection plan prior to their participation in the survey.