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Research data management tools

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Tools for drafting your research data management plan

Templates and apps that will help you draft your research data management plan.

Tool for drafting the Data Management Plan

Video that explains what the research data management plan tool is and how to use it.

eiNa DMP - Pla de gestió de dades de recerca link opens in a new window

Created by the Catalan University Service Consortium, this tool will help you draft your research data management plan.

DMPonline link opens in a new window

DMPonline is de DCC's data management planing tool. It provides tailored guidance, examples and FAQ to help researchers write data management plans.

H2020 – Template for the Research Data Management Plan link opens in a new window

Editable template with the summary of the main contents that should be included in your research data management plan.

Checklist for Data Management Plan link opens in a new window

Document created by the Digital Curation Center. This checklist presents the main questions or themes that researchers may want to cover when writing a DMP.

Research data management infrastructures

Compilation of research data portals and repositories.

We recommend using European resources to ensure that they comply with data protection regulations.

CORA research data repository. link opens in a new window

The aim of this repository is to publish the research data produced by all members of the UOC community. To publish your research data in this repository, contact the research data management service.

Zenodo link opens in a new window

Multidisciplinary open access repository developed by CERN. This is the one most widely recommended for H2020 research projects. Links directly to OpenAIRE.

Integration with ORCID and GitHub
Collaborative spaces (community collections)
Lets you export citations to bibliography managers and social media

EUDAT link opens in a new window

Portal that integrates a series of research data management services: data storage, data search, data preservation and curation.

Dariah link opens in a new window

Network for enhancing and providing support for research and teaching arts and humanities online. Fostering the exchange of data, services and tools and providing training opportunities.

CLARIN - European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology link opens in a new window

Infrastructure for providing support for the exchange, use and sustainability of data and digital language tools (in written, oral or multimodal form) for research in humanities and social sciences.

Figshare link opens in a new window

Multidisciplinar open access repository developed by Digital Science.

re3data.org link opens in a new window

Registry of research data repositories.

Comparative chart of multidisciplinary repositories for open access data link opens in a new window

Comparative chart of the main features of the folllowing data repositories: Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, Mendeley Data and Harvard Dataverse.

OpenAire Guide to choose a data repository link opens in a new window

Guide with the criteria that may be considered when selecting a data repository for both searching an publishing.

Training in research data management

Training modules in research data management.

MANTRA Research Data Management Training link opens in a new window

MANTRA (Research Data Management Training) is an interactive online training module from the University of Edinburgh giving an introduction to research data management.

EUDAT – Training link opens in a new window

Consult the training module on the EUDAT portal to learn more about research data management.

Foster research data management taxonomy link opens in a new window

List of training resources in research data management, classed by planning, policies, services, standards and tools.

CESSDA ERIC – Expert tour guide on data management link opens in a new window

Training module in research data management following FAIR principles.