Research Guides: Research Data Management: Home

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The guide contains resources, tools, and practical tips to help you effectively manage research data from the early planning stages to publishing and beyond. The UAB Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication provides research data management (RDM) support to researchers in all disciplines. Let us help you! Contact us to schedule a workshop or consultation.

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Instruction/ training on RDM topics including:

Overview of best practices for RDM across the data lifecycle
Data and metadata standards
Documentation and electronic lab notebooks
File naming conventions and ReadMe files
Data visualization and data literacy
Data sharing and reuse

Consultations to:

Help prepare Data Management Plans (DMPs)
Conduct data interviews
Select a data repository

RDM 101

20221004_RDM_Slides

Recording of a presentation given on October 4, 2022
An introductory overview of why managing research data matters
Learn best practices for managing research data including practice tips and links to additional resources

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