This training covers the basics of research data management.
By the end of this training, learners should be able to:
- Understand the research data lifecycle
- Explain why it is important to manage research data
- Be able to identify and implement data management procedures relevant for each stage of the research data lifecycle
- Understand the challenges of data management in health sciences
- Be able to prepare a data management plan
- Know where and how to publish/share research data
Training outline
- Research data lifecycle
- Research data in institutional and funder policies [note to trainers: add local examples]
- Research data organization, documentation and metadata.
- Research data storage, back-up and long-term preservation
- Legal and ethical requirements
- Research data sharing and re-use
- Research data management responsibilities
- Data management plan (DMP)
- DMP tools
- Publishing/sharing research data
Resources for facilitators and learners
Online courses
- Bringing data to life: data management for the biomolecular sciences. 2021. EMBL-EBI Training. https://doi.org/10.6019/TOL.Data_Management-w.2018.00001.1
Publications
- Lubiana, T.; Amaral, O. B.; Neves, K. 2021. "Sharing Intermediate Datasets from Systematic Reviews." OSF. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/vbwa9
Videos, webinars, online tutorials
- Journalology OHRI. 2023. Data Champions Symposium - Expanding the Data Champions Program.
- Journalology OHRI. 2023. Data Champions Symposium - A Biomedical Data Management and Sharing Exemplar.
- Research Data Management @ Austria. 2022. Licenses for Research Data.
- NBIS - National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden. 2023. Data publication
- Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge. 2021. Sharing Your Data in a Repository.
- NIH - DPCPSI. 2021. Data Repositories 101.
- UK Data Service. 2019. Research Data Lifecycle.
- UGent Open Science. 2020. Knowledge Clip: The Research Data Lifecycle.
- Journalology OHRI. 2022. The Importance of Data Management.
- OpenAIRE. 2023. ARGOS Tool Tutorial: How to Have Access to ARGOS.
- UGent Open Science. 2023. Knowledge Clip: Data Repositories.
Guides
- Guides - Research Data Management Support. Utrecht University.
Collections of resources
- Managing and sharing research data. 2024. EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme Outline for Librarians.
- Writing a data management plan (DMP). 2024. EIFL Digital Research Literacy Training Programme Outline for Librarians.