290 DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, Vol. 39, No. 6, Nov 2019, pp. 290-299, DOI : 10.14429/djlit.39.6.14997  2019, DESIDOC Received : 22 August 2019, Revised : 20 October 2019 Accepted : 18 November 2019, Online published : 11 December 2019 Research Data Management and Data Sharing among Research Scholars of Life Sciences and Social Sciences Sidra Saeed and P.M Naushad Ali * Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202 001, India * E-mail: naushadali.ls@amu.ac.in ABSTRACT This study investigates perception of research scholars towards research data management and sharing. A survey was conducted among research scholars from Faculty of Life Sciences and Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). In total, 352 participants flled out the questionnaire. The study shows that research scholars ofFaculty of Social Sciences are more willing to share their research data as compared to Research Scholars of Life Sciences. Contributing to scientifc progress and increasing research citations and visibility were the key factors that motivated researchers to share data. However, confdentiality and data misuse were the main concerns among those who were unwilling to share. Finally, some recommendations to improve the of data management and sharing practices are presented. Keywords: Research data management; Research data sharing; Scholarly communication; Data preservation; Research scholars. 1. INTRODUCTION Data are the building blocks of empirical research, whether in the social, behavioral, biological, or physical sciences. To view and extend the work of others, researchers often require access to the data on which that work is based. Research data management and sharing have become critical because of their important and valuable role in enhancing science through building on previous works by reusing data produced and acquired by other researchers. Research data includes every piece of data acquired and generated during the research process. Research data comes in many diferent formats and is gathered using a wide variety of methodologies and may comprises, among others, text, spreadsheets, questionnaires, photographs, flms, test responses, laboratory notes, statistics, observations, slides, results of experiments, samples, scripts, algorithms, workfows, scripts, interview notes and many other forms. Research data can be defned as recorded authentic material often accepted in the scientifc community as necessary to prove research fndings; although the majority of such data is created in digital format, all research data is included regardless of the format in which it is created. Data sharing is not a new concept in scholarly communication. It refers to the practice of making data used for academic research available to other investigators. A number of funding agencies and science journals require authors of peer- reviewed papers to share any additional information necessary to understand develop or reproduce published research. The data sharing practices must be followed as they help to verify the research fndings, dataof publicly funded research must be accessible to one and all to see, verify, reinterpret and re- analyse; this will lead to the broadening of the extreme limits of knowledge. Other researchers in the feld can evaluate data from a diferent perspective thus more knowledge and theories may be generated conserving the time spent for data generation. Sharing data has many benefts and it is manifestly clear and widely accepted. Research Data Management (RDM) plan is a plan which identifes the type of data that will be generated, how it will be documented, stored, and shared. In addition to any further information such as copyright, backup, responsibilities, and cost, etc. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW Review of literature facilitates the researcher to acquire knowledge on a topic under consideration for research and it also helps in avoiding duplication of work. For the this work the investigator has collected articles from various sources such as Emerald Insight, Research Gate, ProQuest and diferent academic journals related to several disciplines. After reviewing several articles published in various journals, the investigators have selected the most relevant articles which fulfll the purpose of the literature review. Elsayed, A.M. & Saleh, E.I. 1 A study was conducted and it has underscored that researchers’ personal experience is their only source of guidance for data management plan and only 42 per cent were unfamiliar with data managements plans. Regarding sharing data, researchers’ at the three Arab Universities displayed a positive attitude towards sharing data, especially older researchers. Tripathi, M, et al. 20 investigated