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Managing your research data

Research data management refers to the active curation of research data throughout the research lifecycle.

Good practice in 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 to meet funder, ethical, legal and other responsibilities. It is also essential for enabling and safeguarding the longevity and continuing intelligibility of research data.

To help you navigate the practicalities of managing and sharing your research data, we offer:

A practical guide to help you manage your research data well, covering best practice for the successful storage, organisation, documentation, archiving and sharing of research data. The guide includes resources, such as a briefing on RDM for supervisors of postgraduate researchers, and information on where further help can be sought.

Tutorial

RDM 101 is an online tutorial designed to provide you with an introduction to research data management. It's available to postgraduate researchers and staff in the Yorkshare VLE (login required).

Complete the tutorial in the VLE

Workshops

Open research training sessions are offered for postgraduate researchers and staff through the Building Research and Innovation Capacity (BRIC) programme. These training sessions include: Research data management: the basics; Archiving your research data; Data management plans: getting started; and, Managing sensitive research data: key principles.

To book a session go to:

SkillsForge - Postgraduate Researchers LMS - Staff (login required)

Services

We offer a data management plan review service, where we will review your plan for you before you submit it.
Research Data York is a data repository for research undertaken at the University of York. The service aims to facilitate data discovery and data sharing.
If you archive a dataset in an external data repository, let us know and we will create a PURE dataset record for you.

One-to-one support

We offer one-to-one online appointments to postgraduate researchers and staff looking for additional support. Our team can help you with open research practices, including research data management, data archiving and data sharing.

Book an Open Research online appointment