This report, based on responses from 104 faculty from research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, presents faculty evaluations of data archiving, curation and management services from leading research universities.

The study focuses on faculty from 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 183-page report presents detailed faculty satisfaction evaluations with many specific data-oriented products and services, including: metadata for data archiving, data repositories, data repository capabilities in following researcher instructions, help in finding datasets, preserving datasets, publicizing the availability of datasets, helping scholars re-utilize data from past studies, quality of data manipulation software, help in data cleaning and many other areas of data management. Scholars also cite the libraries and universities that they most admire for their data management services.