Managing the preservation and retrieval of research projects data in specialized research centers in Egypt: a field study

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to reveal the current situation of how to manage research projects data and methods of preserving and accessing them in the Egyptian specialized research centers of the Ministry of Scientific Research, monitoring the practices and activities that take place in the research data management units / or departments, and identifying the challenges they face and the support services they provide to researchers. The study followed the field survey approach based on a checklist as a methodological tool to collect data from the research centers and institutes of the study community. The study concluded with the following most important results: the absence of institutional policies for the management of research data in most of the centers of the study community and the nature of the services that were available in the research libraries of the centers of the study community are still provided in their traditional form and are in the process of planning. It ended with a set of recommendations, the most important of which are: The need for the initiative of officials of research centers and institutes the study community to develop institutional policy, procedures, and guidelines that must be adhered to throughout the life cycle of the research project, to improve the quality of research project data and manage it efficiently, as well as the need to activate research data management services, and develop the capabilities of research library specialists.