Research Guides: Research Data Management: Campus Faculty/Staff

Research Data Management

Research data management concerns the organization of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of results. It aims to ensure reliable verification of results, and permit new and innovative research built on existing information. It concerns how researchers:
1) Create data and plan for its use; 2) Organize, structure, and name data; 3) Keep the data including making it secure, providing access, storage, and backing it up; and 4) Find information resources, and share with collaborators, publish and get cited.

Data Lifecycle

Source: UC-Santa Cruz University Library

Data Management Plans (DMPs)

DMPTool (UNI access)
"The DMPTool is a free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans. These plans, or DMPs, are now required by many funding agencies as part of the grant proposal submission process. The DMPTool provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with funder requirements. It also has direct links to funder websites, help text for answering questions, and resources for best practices surrounding data management." (DMPTool "About Us' website)

To get started, choose Sign In > Your Institution. Search for University of Northern Iowa and follow the prompts.

Other Resources

Sherpa/Juliet
Database of funders' Open Access policies
Open Science Framework
A free project of the Center for Open Science, allows researchers to keep all files, data, and protocols in one centralized location, with flexibility to collaborate and turn on/off public access to materials. Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, FigShare, GitHub, and others services.
Data.gov
"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data"
Google Dataset Search
FigShare
“A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner”.
Dryad Digital Repository
"curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable"
DataONE
"community driven project providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data"
Make Data Count
"to elevate data to a first-class research output alongside more traditional products, such as publications"
DataCite
"provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data"

Research Data Management

Rod Library Data Services

Other UNI Resources

Other Guides of Interest

Research Data Management

Data Lifecycle

Data Management Plans (DMPs)

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