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Your research data journey starts from here

Data management is essential for good research practice and should be integrated into 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.

Select your research stage:

Planning

  • How to write a Data Management Plan?
  • Guidance from funders
  • Costing
  • Making data FAIR
  • Data privacy & GDPR

During research

  • Data documentation
  • File naming
  • Versioning
  • Creating metadata
  • Data security
  • Data sharing
  • Do I have sensitive data?

Approaching completion

  • What data to keep?
  • How long to keep?
  • What data to share?
  • Preservation costs
  • Data formats
  • Where to deposit?
  • Embargoes & restrictions

See the Research Data Management Policy of the University of Southampton

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

Email us at researchdata@soton.ac.uk