Research data management at Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo: Current status and future perspectives

Abstract

The Bolivian Catholic University San Pablo is a relatively young university with emerging research, the present study provides a general look at the current state of research data management by conducting a survey of researchers and managers. The researchers surveyed were mostly from the engineering area and managers from social areas, this influenced the results in the fact that there are differences in the perceptions between both groups of respondents, the most notable of which is in the amount of storage required by the researchers. Taking into account that almost 45% of researchers state that they have sometimes generated sensitive research data, it is striking that nearly 80% have not had agreements for the reuse of data and that the ownership of the data is unknown. Both researchers and managers consider that training is important, this will help to manage research data management plans in the future.