Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

Department	Respondents
Clinical Medicine	6
Health and Communities Studies	12
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences	8
Biosciences	31
Chemistry	14
Physics	25
Agriculture and Forestry	1
Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences	14
General Engineering	2
Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering	3
Mechanical, Aero and Production Engineering	5
Mathematics	1
IT & Systems Sciences, Computer Software Engineering	8
Business and Management Studies	2
Geography	4
Social Studies	1
Humanities and Language Based Studies	7
Design and Creative Arts	3
Education	7
Other	25

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Position	Respondents
Professor	38
Reader or Equivalent	11
Senior Lecturer	24
Lecturer	32
Research Assistant	23
Post-Graduate Student	16
Other	35

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Q13	1-4 years	5-9 years	10-19 years	20-49 years	Indefinitely
Design and creative arts	0.0%	0.0%	25.0%	0.0%	75.0%
Clinical medicine	0	37.5%	12.5%	0	50.0%
Geography	25.0%	0.0%	25.0%	0.0%	50.0%
Earth, marine and environmental sciences	0.0%	20.0%	20.0%	20.0%	40.0%
Physics	31.8%	18.2%	4.5%	9.1%	36.4%
Health and community studies	14.3%	35.7%	14.3%	0.0%	35.7%
Electrical, electronic and computer engineering	66.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	33.3%
Psychology and behavioural sciences	0	62.5%	0	12.5%	25.0%
Humanities and language based studies	25.0%	50.0%	0.0%	0.0%	25.0%
Chemistry	40.0%	20.0%	20.0%	0.0%	20.0%
Biosciences	18.5%	29.6%	22.2%	11.1%	18.5%
Education	14.3%	57.1%	14.3%	0.0%	14.3%
Agriculture and forestry	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
General engineering	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%
Mechanical, aero and production engineering	40.0%	40.0%	20.0%	0.0%	0.0%
IT and systems sciences, computer software engineering	25.0%	25.0%	50.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Business and management studies	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%

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	You	Other team members	Limited externals (<20)	Many externals (>20)	Other
Sciences	100.0	92.5	72.9	22.4	1.9
Social sciences	100.0	100.0	54.5	45.5	0.0
Arts & humanities	100.0	62.5	37.5	37.5	0.0

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	Sciences	Social sciences	Arts & humanities
Email	100	75	100
Portable media	69.1	87.5	100
Public URL	54.4	75	50
Publisher	48.5	25	50
Network drives	47.1	37.5	50
Data centre	33.8	12.5	25
Post	25	50	25
Other	13.2	12.5	25
No measures	17.6	12.5	75

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University	Total QR (2005/2006)	Index =Leeds	Current needs (TB)	Index=Bristol	Current needs (TB)	Index=Oxford	Current needs (TB)	MIDPOINT
1	£92,989,937	2.20	549	2.46	776	1.05	375	567
2	£88,209,908	2.08	521	2.33	736	1.00	356	538
3	£81,613,342	1.93	482	2.16	681	0.93	329	498
4	£68,809,001	1.63	407	1.82	574	0.78	278	420
5	£48,532,841	1.15	287	1.28	405	0.55	196	296
6	£46,198,210	1.09	273	1.22	386	0.52	186	282
7	£42,363,510	1.00	250	1.12	354	0.48	171	258
8	£42,312,078	1.00	250	1.12	353	0.48	171	258
9	£40,254,703	0.95	238	1.06	336	0.46	162	245
10	£38,966,265	0.92	230	1.03	325	0.44	157	238
11	£37,976,395	0.90	224	1.00	317	0.43	153	232
12	£37,864,321	0.89	224	1.00	316	0.43	153	231
13	£34,315,922	0.81	203	0.91	286	0.39	138	209
14	£32,396,429	0.77	191	0.86	270	0.37	131	198
15	£30,671,708	0.72	181	0.81	256	0.35	124	187
16	£27,702,149	0.65	164	0.73	231	0.31	112	169
17	£26,650,091	0.63	157	0.70	222	0.30	108	162
18	£25,865,107	0.61	153	0.68	216	0.29	104	158
19	£21,389,229	0.51	126	0.56	179	0.24	86	130
20	£20,931,618	0.49	124	0.55	175	0.24	84	128
21	£20,810,027	0.49	123	0.55	174	0.24	84	127
22	£18,003,142	0.43	106	0.48	150	0.20	73	110
23	£16,532,050	0.39	98	0.44	138	0.19	67	101
24	£16,406,665	0.39	97	0.43	137	0.19	66	100
25	£16,324,725	0.39	96	0.43	136	0.19	66	100
26	£16,211,600	0.38	96	0.43	135	0.18	65	99
27	£16,092,955	0.38	95	0.43	134	0.18	65	98
28	£15,859,776	0.37	94	0.42	132	0.18	64	97
29	£15,803,333	0.37	93	0.42	132	0.18	64	96
30	£14,540,235	0.34	86	0.38	121	0.16	59	89
31	£14,435,574	0.34	85	0.38	120	0.16	58	88
32	£14,397,547	0.34	85	0.38	120	0.16	58	88
33	£14,288,165	0.34	84	0.38	119	0.16	58	87
34	£13,114,475	0.31	77	0.35	109	0.15	53	80
35	£12,879,733	0.30	76	0.34	107	0.15	52	79
36	£12,310,753	0.29	73	0.33	103	0.14	50	75
37	£12,148,683	0.29	72	0.32	101	0.14	49	74
38	£11,247,434	0.27	66	0.30	94	0.13	45	69
39	£9,720,789	0.23	57	0.26	81	0.11	39	59
40	£9,303,674	0.22	55	0.25	78	0.11	38	57
41	£8,785,787	0.21	52	0.23	73	0.10	35	54
42	£8,449,437	0.20	50	0.22	71	0.10	34	52
43	£8,119,179	0.19	48	0.21	68	0.09	33	49
44	£7,979,771	0.19	47	0.21	67	0.09	32	49
45	£7,831,877	0.19	46	0.21	65	0.09	32	48
46	£7,806,865	0.18	46	0.21	65	0.09	32	48
47	£7,743,191	0.18	46	0.20	65	0.09	31	47
48	£7,632,476	0.18	45	0.20	64	0.09	31	47
49	£7,582,876	0.18	45	0.20	63	0.09	31	46
50	£7,208,855	0.17	43	0.19	60	0.08	29	44
51	£7,197,880	0.17	43	0.19	60	0.08	29	44
52	£6,781,947	0.16	40	0.18	57	0.08	27	41
53	£6,599,529	0.16	39	0.17	55	0.07	27	40
54	£6,302,454	0.15	37	0.17	53	0.07	25	38
55	£6,277,288	0.15	37	0.17	52	0.07	25	38
56	£6,218,659	0.15	37	0.16	52	0.07	25	38
57	£5,967,778	0.14	35	0.16	50	0.07	24	36
58	£5,929,705	0.14	35	0.16	49	0.07	24	36
59	£5,485,731	0.13	32	0.14	46	0.06	22	33
60	£5,483,279	0.13	32	0.14	46	0.06	22	33
61	£4,465,843	0.11	26	0.12	37	0.05	18	27
62	£4,315,207	0.10	25	0.11	36	0.05	17	26
63	£4,141,224	0.10	24	0.11	35	0.05	17	25
64	£4,110,967	0.10	24	0.11	34	0.05	17	25
65	£3,798,434	0.09	22	0.10	32	0.04	15	23
66	£3,675,171	0.09	22	0.10	31	0.04	15	22
67	£3,526,859	0.08	21	0.09	29	0.04	14	22
68	£3,407,213	0.08	20	0.09	28	0.04	14	21
69	£3,293,462	0.08	19	0.09	27	0.04	13	20
70	£2,726,102	0.06	16	0.07	23	0.03	11	17
71	£2,723,193	0.06	16	0.07	23	0.03	11	17
72	£2,712,498	0.06	16	0.07	23	0.03	11	17
73	£2,492,955	0.06	15	0.07	21	0.03	10	15
74	£2,387,496	0.06	14	0.06	20	0.03	10	15
75	£2,374,233	0.06	14	0.06	20	0.03	10	14
76	£2,250,075	0.05	13	0.06	19	0.03	9	14
77	£2,181,252	0.05	13	0.06	18	0.02	9	13
78	£1,974,596	0.05	12	0.05	16	0.02	8	12
79	£1,967,119	0.05	12	0.05	16	0.02	8	12
80	£1,848,802	0.04	11	0.05	15	0.02	7	11
81	£1,822,640	0.04	11	0.05	15	0.02	7	11
82	£1,534,354	0.04	9	0.04	13	0.02	6	9
83	£1,395,066	0.03	8	0.04	12	0.02	6	9
84	£1,385,740	0.03	8	0.04	12	0.02	6	8
85	£1,361,744	0.03	8	0.04	11	0.02	5	8
86	£1,330,502	0.03	8	0.04	11	0.02	5	8
87	£1,323,201	0.03	8	0.03	11	0.02	5	8
88	£1,236,515	0.03	7	0.03	10	0.01	5	8
89	£1,206,541	0.03	7	0.03	10	0.01	5	7
90	£1,181,260	0.03	7	0.03	10	0.01	5	7
91	£1,143,248	0.03	7	0.03	10	0.01	5	7
92	£1,142,156	0.03	7	0.03	10	0.01	5	7
93	£1,108,479	0.03	7	0.03	9	0.01	4	7
94	£1,066,843	0.03	6	0.03	9	0.01	4	7
95	£1,014,547	0.02	6	0.03	8	0.01	4	6
96	£953,047	0.02	6	0.03	8	0.01	4	6
97	£933,245	0.02	6	0.02	8	0.01	4	6
98	£920,177	0.02	5	0.02	8	0.01	4	6
99	£836,296	0.02	5	0.02	7	0.01	3	5
100	£816,256	0.02	5	0.02	7	0.01	3	5
101	£735,631	0.02	4	0.02	6	0.01	3	4
102	£705,804	0.02	4	0.02	6	0.01	3	4
103	£655,007	0.02	4	0.02	5	0.01	3	4
104	£654,181	0.02	4	0.02	5	0.01	3	4
105	£653,438	0.02	4	0.02	5	0.01	3	4
106	£616,042	0.01	4	0.02	5	0.01	2	4
107	£606,515	0.01	4	0.02	5	0.01	2	4
108	£589,914	0.01	3	0.02	5	0.01	2	4
109	£559,057	0.01	3	0.01	5	0.01	2	3
110	£538,374	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.01	2	3
111	£511,106	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.01	2	3
112	£492,099	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.01	2	3
113	£456,264	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.01	2	3
114	£426,659	0.01	3	0.01	4	0.00	2	3
115	£389,385	0.01	2	0.01	3	0.00	2	2
116	£387,137	0.01	2	0.01	3	0.00	2	2
117	£376,892	0.01	2	0.01	3	0.00	2	2
118	£357,749	0.01	2	0.01	3	0.00	1	2
119	£315,055	0.01	2	0.01	3	0.00	1	2
120	£289,722	0.01	2	0.01	2	0.00	1	2
121	£266,829	0.01	2	0.01	2	0.00	1	2
122	£256,445	0.01	2	0.01	2	0.00	1	2
123	£237,597	0.01	1	0.01	2	0.00	1	1
124	£233,508	0.01	1	0.01	2	0.00	1	1
125	£227,080	0.01	1	0.01	2	0.00	1	1
126	£212,641	0.01	1					0
TOTAL UK			8,353		11,796		5,704	8,618

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