Yes. I'm working on this where I am. It's slow going. - RepoRat

Not sure that ethics would be the right edge to link researchers with librarians. Data management would seem more natural to me. - Daniel Mietchen

Agree with Daniel - I am working with the library to build a 'information literacy' content for the medical students that opt into doing research for a semester or year. - Kubke

Although having some courses from sociology and philosophy departments on ethics and responsible conduct could be bloody interesting! - Kubke

Data management has several points of contact with ethics: personally-identifiable information and other human-subjects issues (which leads directly into discussions of data security), data ownership, open data, fraud avoidance, appropriate crediting... - RepoRat

And currently, at least in the few example US universities at our working table, ethics and responsible research training courses are currently linked. Many training grants (NIH, NSF) require these courses and currently (in my experience), the courses are ad-hoc and not enthusiastically designed. So, depending on institution, it's a ripe opportunity for connecting library with graduate students. Connecting library data management "e-research" (etc) peeps with research was identified as a barrier. We seemed to agree that graduate students (as opposed to PIs) would be a more fruitful avenue. - Steve Koch

Based on my experience with undergraduate laboratory teaching, I think that undergrad labs are a fantastic opportunity for bridging the research / library gap as far as "e-research" goes. - Steve Koch

I agree with that as well, no surprise. :) Got a one-credit "basic data management" course on the slate for this summer. Gonna be spending a LOT of time flacking it this spring. - RepoRat

@Repo: One idea at our table (maybe you already do this): require the students to bring data from their lab to the course and do hands-on data management. Whatever the result should be educational for all. E.g., if the student's PI says, "no you can't take the data it's mine," that's a good springboard for discussion. Or if they bring a laptop with the sole copy of data, another lesson. Etc. - Steve Koch

that's DEFINITELY part of the plan. :) - RepoRat

AWESOME :) - Steve Koch