Welcome to the Research Data Management Guide

Why is good data management Important?

• Helps you document and store your own data to use later
• Enables discovery of data from other researchers which you can reuse
• Avoids unnecessary duplication.
• Validates your results if required.
• Ensures your research is visible and has impact.
• Enables you to get credit when others cite your work.
• Complies with funder requirements

What can I do?

1. Work through the excellent online tutorials at MANTRA
2. Use a checklist to see if you need to create a data management plan
3. Create a Data Management Plan - see the Data Management Plan Tool at the Digital Curation Centre
4. Attend a library course on Data Management
5. Publish your data with the UC Research Repository
6. Lean how to cite other people's datasets

from the Digital Curation Centre