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If you use the DMP Assistant to support data management planning, please note two upcoming maintenance windows for the DMP Assistant service as it migrates to new infrastructure:

April 30, 2025 12:00-14:00 ET/9:00-11:00 AM PT
We will be performing maintenance during this window, and users may experience minor issues. We do not expect significant down time. Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1314
May 15, 2025 12:00-14:30 ET/9:00-11:30 PT
This will be a complete outage of the DMP Assistant service. This time will be used for essential work and completion of the migration. Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1316

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Service Note: Alliance DMP Assistant Maintenance on April 30 and May 15, 2025

If you use the DMP Assistant to support data management planning, please note two upcoming maintenance windows for the DMP Assistant service as it migrates to new infrastructure:April 30, 2025 12:00-14:00 ET/9:00-11:00 AM PTWe will be performing maintenance during this window, and users may experience minor issues. We do not expect significant down time. Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1314May 15, 2025 12:00-14:30 ET/9:00-11:30 PTThis will be a complete outage of the DMP Assistant service. This time will be used for essential work and completion of the migration. Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1316...

Data Bites: UBC Vancouver Library Public Events

UBC Data Bites workshops are now available for sign up for the summer term, and open to the public. These workshops support skill building in a wide range of research data management topics and task. Session topics and registration:https://bit.ly/Databites...

Article: Understanding ORCID adoption among academic researchers

Porter, S.R. Understanding ORCID adoption among academic researchers. Scientometrics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05300-7Abstract:ORCID has proven essential in identifying individual researchers and their publications, both for bibliometric research analyses and for universities and other organizations tracking the research productivity and impact of their personnel. Yet widespread adoption of the ORCID by individual researchers has proved elusive, with previous studies finding adoption rates ranging from 3% to 42%. Using a national survey of U.S. academic researchers at 31 research universities, we investigate why some researchers adopt an ORCID and some do not. We found an overall adoption rate of 72%, with adoptions rates ranging between academic disciplines from a low of 17% in the visual and performing arts to a high of 93% in biological and biomedical sciences. Many academic journals require an ORCID to submit a manuscript, and this is the main reason why researchers adopt an ORCID. The top three reasons for not having an ORCID are not seeing the benefits, being far enough in the academic career to not need it, and working in an academic discipline where it is not needed.Full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05300-7...

WestDRI archives of online webinars and events for Research Data Management and related skills

Recordings from WestDRI's seminar series are made available through their YouTube channel.WestDRI is part of the Research Computing Group at SFU (https://www.rcg.sfu.ca), offers a range of tutorials and online workshops targeted at helping researchers learn about and use SFU and Digital Research Alliance of Canada (https://alliancecan.ca) computing resources, as well as advanced skills in computational research. Sessions range in length from 30 minutes to two hours and are delivered online via Zoom. For more information, visit https://training.westdri.ca or email training@westdri.ca. ...

Service Note: Alliance DMP Assistant Maintenance on April 30 and May 15, 2025

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