Library Research Guides: Research Data Management Toolkit: News and resources

Research data management training

23 Research Data Things
If you care for, and about, research data and want to fill in some gaps or learn more, this self-directed course from the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) may be right for you.
Digital Curation Training
The Digital Curation Centre is a well-established training provider in digital curation and research data management. This training program aims to equip researchers and data custodians with the skills they need to share and preserve data effectively.
MANTRA
MANTRA is a free online course for those who manage digital data as part of their research project. Developed by the University of Edinburgh
Monash University Training Materials
Data management training for postgraduate students and their supervisors

Books

Managing research data

This introduction to research data management is intended for library and information students and professionals working in education and other sectors, as well as policy makers, university managers, archivists, and those working in national library services.

Digital ethics : research and practice

This edited volume contains some of the best research on digital ethics from authors in communication, law, information studies, education, philosophy, political science, computer science, and business on topics that range from sexting to piracy.

News

New SPARC Open Data Resource for Research Funders - By Greg Tananbaum

British Library leads the way for sharing research data in the UK as five major institutions sign up to DataCite.

ANDS Newsletter
ANDS News is a fortnightly email newsletter packed with data news, events, jobs, resources and much more.

Resources

How to develop a data management and sharing plan
Sarah Jones from the Digital Curation Centre outlines the process of developing a data management and sharing plan.
Managing the Data Deluge
Article by Geoffrey Little in the Journal Academic Librarianship. (2012)
Data management planning
An ANDS guide of particular interest to researchers and others in the research team who are charged with
managing data for a research project or an institution.

Useful links

Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Since being formally established in 2008, ANDS has supported numerous research data projects around Australia. It has also been playing an important role in the international research data community.
Digital Curation Centre
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is an internationally-recognised centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management.
Managing and Sharing Data : UK Data Archive
The information provided in this guide is designed to help
researchers and data managers, across a wide range of
research disciplines and research environments, produce
highest quality research data with the greatest potential for
long-term use
Monash Research Data Planning Checklist (Word)
Research Data Australia
Research Data Australia helps you find, access, and reuse data for research from over one hundred Australian research organisations, government agencies, and cultural institutions. We do not store the data itself here but provide descriptions of, and links to, the data from our data publishing partners.
Registry of Research Data Repositories
re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions