How do Honours, Undergraduate or Postgraduate course-work students (or their Advisors) complete records in Research Data JCU?

Note: This does not apply to HDR Candidates or Researchers.

It is at the discretion of the Primary Advisor as to WHO creates records in Research Data JCU. It is recommended however, that wherever possible the student is exposed to creating these records as this assists in their learning.

The following are some of the roles in Research Data JCU:

• Whoever is logged into Research Data JCU when the RDMP is created will be recorded as the Record Administrator.  The Record Administrator’s email address needs to be recorded to enable them to have read/write permissions.
• Where Advisors create RDMPs on behalf of students, the Advisor will be recorded as the Record Administrator and the student will NOT have read/write permissions.
• Students can create a RDMP.  However, they will NOT be able to select their name from the (active researchers) lookup to add themselves as the Lead Investigator.  The Primary Advisor will need to be selected as the Lead Investigator.
• The Primary Advisor or project supervisor should be listed as the Lead Investigator, Data Manager and Advisor.
• Students can only be added to the Collaborator field.
• Research Data JCU allows for changes in both the project team and specific role functions to be made if necessary.

We recommend  students  (and HDR candidates) append project titles in Research Data JCU to include the expected qualification e.g.  Title (Honours) or Title (PhD project). This will make it easier for advisors or project supervisors to keep track of multiple projects for which they have read-write or read access.

If a Data Record and Data Publication(s) are created at a later time, the student’s name can be added to the Data Publication (under the Citation tab) to enable the dataset to be correctly cited.

See also this table for a summary of read/write permissions in Research Data JCU.