Library Subject Guides
Planning for the management of research data, addressing any ethical and legal issues and gathering together research data management costs.
Successfully managing and handling research data while you are working with it, how research data is stored, secured, organised, formatted and documented; complying with funder, University, other relevant regulations and legal requirements.
Selecting research data for archiving and sharing, uploading selected research data to an appropriate data repository, deciding whether and on what terms the data will be made available, and selecting an appropriate licence.
Linking shared research data to associated published outputs, writing a data access statement to include in published outputs and recording shared datasets in PURE / WREO.
The Policy requires that you to manage and handle your research data well, and for staff and postgraduate researchers (doctoral-level), to consider archiving and sharing (where possible) research data at the end of your project. You should read it.
Good research data management enables the University and its researchers to meet the standards and responsibilities set out in the University's Code of practice on research integrity and:
meet funder, ethical, legal and other requirements
maintain accurate, complete, authentic and reliable research data
store data securely and safely, minimising data loss
preserve data which is identifiable, retrievable, and available when needed
minimise the unnecessary duplication of data collection
validate the quality and integrity of research
conduct research effectively and efficiently.
In addition to this guide we provide RDM 101, an online tutorial designed to provide you with an introduction to research data management.
It's available to staff and postgraduate researchers. Complete it in the VLE
We run regular workshops for staff and postgraduate researchers through the training programme coordinated by the BRIC Team.
Postgraduate researchers may ask you for advice about data management and writing their data management plan. The Open Research team is here to help you support your PGRs.
A number of services are offered to help you navigate the practicalities of managing and sharing your research data. This includes a data management plan review service, creating PURE dataset records for datasets archived in external data repositories and Research Data York, a data repository for research undertaken at the University.
Read more about the services provided on the Managing and sharing your research data web page.
If you have any questions, want to know more, or if you want us to talk about RDM with groups of staff/postgraduate researchers in your department, email us: lib-open-research@york.ac.uk
If your question is more complex, you can book an appointment to get personalised guidance on RDM
