This report, based on responses from 104 faculty from research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, looks closely at the data archiving, curation and management needs of faculty in data intensive fields such as medicine, chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, statistics and mathematics, engineering, economics and finance, sociology and political science and other data-intensive fields.

The 114-page report reveals the extent to which faculty are impacted by data management and archiving requirements from co-authors, funding sources, academic departments, scholarly publications, data repositories, regulatory bodies, and others with data management requirements.