RefID,First Author,Year of Publication,Article Title,Journal Name, Conference Name/Book/Gray Litature,Study Design 01,Study Design 02,Study Design 03,Study Period,Study Purpose/Objective/Research Questions,Principal Expiriences Explored,Geographical Location,Setting,Associated Dicipline,Qualitative Methodologic Orientation,Theoretical Framework,Comments
Bardyn 2012,Bardyn,2012,Translational Researchers’ Perceptions of Data Management Practices and Data Curation Needs: Findings from a Focus Group in an Academic Health Sciences Library,Journal of Web Librarianship,,Focus groups,,,June 2010,Gain a better understanding of the current state of data use and data management practices among translational researchers,,North America: USA,University campus,Medicine,Content analysis,NR,
Bradbury 2010,Bradbury,2010,"Survey of eResearch practices and skills at QUT, Australia",,Proceedings of 31st Annual IATUL Conference : The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries,Focus groups,,,Sept 2009 - Oct 2009,"The survey was designed with two objectives in mind:
1. Provide a snapshot of researchers’ eResearch practices and skills, that is, act as a skills audit of researchers’ eResearch skills.
2. Provide an indication of researchers’ training needs in the many aspects of eResearch",Researcher eResearch practies and skills and training needs,Australia,University,Multidisciplinary,NR,NR,"EB: ""Outcomes only abstracted by EB (HM did not abstract Outcomes)"""
Cox 2012,Cox,2012,Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management,Ariadne,,Focus groups,,,Not reported,Summarize current thinking in preparationg for the development of learning materials for UK higher education institutions. Thinking is based on the literature as well as data collected during focus groups with staff at participating libraries,,Europe: UK,University campuses,Information Science,NR,NR,
Cox 2016,Cox,2016,"Moving a brick building: UK libraries
coping with research data management as a ‘wicked’ problem","Journal of Librarianship and
Information Science",,Interviews,,,March - June 2013,"The purpose of this paper is to explore the value to librarians of seeing research data management as a ‘wicked’ problem  (i.e. unique, complex problems which are defined differently by different stakeholders making them particularly intractable)",Value of libarians for RDM,Europe: UK,University campuses,Information Science,Descriptive thematic analysis ,NR,
Mattern 2015,Mattern,2015,Using Participatory Design and Visual Narrative Inquiry to Investigate Researchers’ Data Challenges and Recommendations for Library Research Data Services,Program electronic library and information systems,,Focus groups,,,December 2014-January 2015,"To probe how early career researchers visually conceptualize the research process in their disciplines, their self-reported research data challenges and needs, and their recommendations for library Research Data Services","To probe how early career researchers visually conceptualize the research process in their disciplines, their self-reported research data challenges and needs, and their recommendations for library Research Data Services",NR,Unversity campus,Multidisciplinary,NR,NR,
McLure 2014,McLure,2014,"Data Curation: A Study of
Researcher Practices and
Needs",portal: Libraries and the Academy,,Focus groups,,,February - April 2012,"The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the following research questions: 
(1) What is the nature of the data sets that these researchers currently create
and maintain? 
(2) How are these researchers currently managing their data sets? 
(3) What needs for assistance and support do these researchers identify in relation to sharing,
curating, and preserving their data sets? and 
(4) What is the feasibility of adaptingthe Purdue University Libraries’ Data Curation Profiles (DCP) Toolkit2",,North America: USA,University campus,"• Natural Resources
• Applied Human Sciences
• Liberal Arts
• Natural Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• Engineering
• Agricultural Sciences",Thematic analysis,NR,"For Outcomes: I did not list ""Participant Research Projects"" as a theme as did not seem appropriate"
Noorman 2014,Noorman,2014,Institutional evaluation and support for open access data Policy ,,Gray Literature: Published in/as part of: RECommendations for Open access to research Data in Europe RECODE,Interviews,,,Not reported,"We explore current strategies, the remaining barriers and possible solutions for
overcoming barriers in making open access to research data possible","Focus on challenges faced by institutions, such as archives, libraries, universities, data centres and funding bodies, in making open access to research data possible.  explore current strategies, the remaining barriers and possible solutions for overcoming these barriers",Europe: UK,"University, national  libraries, data centres, universities, research institutes and  commercial  companies","• Particle physics and high energy computing
• Health sciences
• Bioengineering
• Earth Sciences
• Archaeology",NR,NR,Report identified four key challenges which are abstracted as the second order constructs with subthemes (bolded)
Pinfield 2014,Pinfield,2014,"Research Data Management and Libraries: Relationships, Activities, Drivers and Influences",PLoS One,,Interviews,,,March - June 2013,"The research had four main objectives designed to analyse the library’s
contribution to RDM within the wider institutional context:
1. To examine roles and relationships involved in RDM
2. To identify the main components of RDM programmes
3. To evaluate the main drivers for RDM activities
4. To analyse the key factors influencing the shape of RDM developments","The current state of RDM activity in the institution; secondly, the skills needed to carry out RDM services; thirdly, the story of how RDM policy and services have developed in the institution",Europe: UK,Unversity campus (libraries),Information Science,Thematic analysis,NR,
Sands 2014,Sands,2014,We’re Working On It: Transferring the Sloan Digital SkySurvey from Laboratory to Library,International Journal of Digital Curation,,Interviews,Ethnographic observations,,2011-2013,"This article reports on the transfer of a massive scientific dataset from a national laboratory to a university library, and from one kind of workforce to another",The interviews were semi-structured around the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) data transfer and the emerging workforce in data management,North America: USA,University campus(es),Astronomy,Grounded theory,NR,
Soehner 2010 (+ Companion) ,Soehner,2010,e-Science and data support services: a survey of ARL members,,"International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries, 31st Annual Conference",Interviews,,,August-November 2009,"To provide a current snapshot of data curation and e-science support activities, documenting a range of approaches and strategies evolving at research institutions and among research libraries","Participants were asked to describe their professional activities, the nature of the digital information they had created in the course of their work and the types of data formats included in their body of work.",North America: USA/Canada,University campuses,Information Science,NR,NR,"2010 paper says 7 instutitions contacted, companion report shows 6 institutions"
Stanton 2011,Stanton,2011,"Education for eScience Professionals: Job Analysis, Curriculum Guidance, and ProgramConsiderations",Journal of Education for Library and Information Science,,Focus Groups,Interviews,Ethnographic Study,Not reported,"To understand the dimensions of work, worker, and workplace, including the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for eScience professionals",,North America: USA,"Universities, research centers",Information Science,"Deductive and inductive approaches
textual data analysis",Fine and Cronshaw's job analysis framework (not certain is considered a 'theoretical' framework,
Varvel 2013,Varvel,2013,Data Management Consulting at The Johns Hopkins University,New Review of Academic Librarianship,,Interviews,,,Not reported,"To understand data management professionals, as their importance continues to grow in today’s data management landscape","identified skills, roles, and backgrounds of the DMS data management consultants
(DMCs) at JHU, determined the key aspects of the services involved,
and explored the opportunities that these DMCs afford",North America: USA,University campus,Information Science,Grounded analysis,"Frameworks conceptualized by the characteristics of employment in curatorial fields (Cragin, Palmer, Varvel, Collie, and Dolan; Hill, MacMullen, and Palmer; and unpublished job posting research), definitions of data curation, digital curation (see introduction), and data management (Mosley), and conceptual representations of digital curation functions found in the matrix of digital curation  (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/).",