​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.