Library Guides: Data Management Plans: Overview

What is Data Management?

DataONE Data Management Hub
A repository for open educational resources regarding data management, containing materials such as lessons, best practices, and videos.
DataONE Best Practices (2012)
Overview of research data management. Archived from 2012, but continues to be relevant in answering "why" and "what" of managing research data.

Data Management Resources

ACRL's Resources for Data Management Planning
DataQ
A collaborative platform for answering research data questions in academic libraries
MANTRA: Research Data Management Training
Research Data MANTRA is a online course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data. From the University of Edinburgh.
MIT's Data Management Guide
MS&T Guide to Research Management Data
Overview of definitions, metadata, and sharing and citing data. Includes some UM System information.
Unviersity of Arizona Libraries Data Management Resources
University of Oregon's Managing Research Data
UW-Madison's Research Data Services
The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Series

The Importance of Data Management

"Digital information lasts forever -- or five years, whichever comes first." --Jeff Rothenberg (1999)

It's 2024. Do you know where your data are?

Good data management allows you to:

Safeguard your research
Make new discoveries
Increase the visibility of your research
Meet grant requirements

Think about data management at all points of the data life cycle.

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The University Libraries can help support your research data management needs, including archiving your data in MOspace: Institutional Repository.

Libraries have been managing information for 1,000s of years. Learn how Librarians Leap to the Aid of Researchers in this age of changing requirements for sharing and preserving the products of federally-funded research.