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Research Data Management: Home

Guidance and support to staff, researchers and students at the University of Southampton

Planning

Planning

Data management planning and tools

Working with data

Working with your data

Managing your data throughout your project

Storing Data

Storing your data

How and where to store your data

Sharing Data

Sharing your data

How and when you can share your data

GDPR & Data

Data and the GDPR

What does the GDPR mean for your research data?

PhD & Data

Data and Your PhD

Why and how you should manage your data during your degree

Policies

Information on University and funder policies

Support

Support

Support offered by the Research Data Team

 

What is Data Management?

Data management is about good research practice, it is an essential building block for good research.  It should be part of your everyday processes. 

Basic principles, such as file naming and version control, will help you locate and understand your data. 

Data management will help you collate data that underpins your work in a way that allows it to be used with confidence, both now and in the future.  

Ultimately, well managed data can add to the credit you receive and impact of your research alongside other research outputs.

To find data produced by researchers at the University of Southampton, please see our institutional data catalogue.

 

Email us on researchdata@soton.ac.uk

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Requesting a DOI

We can register a DOI for your dataset through DataCite - this gives a persistent link and can make it easier to cite.

For more details see our DOI for data page.

 

ReproducabiliTEA

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The new autumn timetable is now here!

Join the Southampton UK Reproducibility Network Team for tea and cake at their (virtual) fortnightly journal reading and seminar club!

See a full list of topics and links to papers

The hour long sessions are open to anybody interested in robust research practice, reproducibility, replication, and open science. Each session will discuss a paper relating to one of these themes.

Research Support Guide

Other University Websites

Other useful websites in the University are: