Digital Publishing, Research Data Management, and IPR Law

By focusing on the topic of research data management, the course equips participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively manage research data throughout the research lifecycle. Research data management is a critical aspect of contemporary research practices, ensuring that data is collected, organized, stored, and shared in a secure, accessible, and ethical manner. The leading principles throughout this process are the FAIR guidelines, that ensure that the data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

Therefore, this part of the course will focus on the different stages of the research life cycle and provide the participants with general information on: 

• planning data driven research
• data acquisition
• data analysis
• storage of research data
• data publication and dissemination
• data reuse

Participants will also learn about how the University of Graz supports research data management.

In this part participants will get an overview over different publishing processes, especially about publishing in journals as well as aspects of peer review. 

These innovative ways of publishing also entail a number of legal, ethical and technical challenges. This part of the module will focus on practical insights into digital publishing, demonstrate the legal situation of researchers publishing in the digital realm, and introduce participants to various applications of principles of Openness in their own work.  

• Introduction to copyright (for research and teaching)
• Rights of the authors: Publishing contracts and collecting societies
• Exceptions to copyright for research and teaching

• individual (open) licensing: Creative Commons
• Open Access - Open Data - Open Science
• Open resources
• Predatory Publishing

• Researchers as "service providers”
• Duties and responsibilities: Imprint obligation and data protection