Digital Curation Centre

The University of Bristol runs a dedicated research data repository as part of their Research Data Service. They are using the DataCite service at the British Library to assign digital object identifiers (DOIs) to research datasets in order to provide unique and perpetual identifiers for data, to allow easy citation and discoverability. The repository hosts data that underpins research outputs and provides a home for data with immediate and straightforward access. The Bristol Research Data Service provides guidance on how to use the identifiers to cite data and is developing appropriate policies to monitor usage.

The DMP Checklist flyer is a handy foldout version of the Checklist which presents the main questions or themes that researchers may want to cover when writing a DMP.

Our Curation Lifecycle Model provides a graphical, high-level overview of the stages required for successful curation and preservation of data from initial conceptualisation or receipt through the iterative curation cycle.

This guide suggests a number of steps that could be useful when thinking about formalising data management practices via a policy, whether at institutional, faculty or departmental level.

This guide will help you develop a managed approach to appraising and selecting datasets for curation. It provides working knowledge of current approaches, issues and challenges, and of the roles of research groups and institutional data services in addressing these.

This guide will help you create links between your academic publications and the underlying datasets, so that anyone viewing the publication will be able to locate the dataset and vice versa. It provides a working knowledge of the issues and challenges involved, and of how current approaches seek to address them.

This guide outlines the process of developing a data management and sharing plan. Planning for the effective creation, management and sharing of your data enables you to get the most out of your research. The guide outlines UK funder expectations for data management and sharing plans and provides practical guidance on how to meet these.

The purpose of this guide is to help institutions understand the key aims and issues associated with planning and implementing research data management (RDM) services. It explains the components and processes of RDM services and describes the roles and responsibilities of those who will deliver and use them.

This guide is meant for people whose role involves developing services or tools to support research data management (RDM) and digital curation, whether in a Higher Education Institution or a project working across institutions.

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This guide will help you decide how to apply a licence to your research data, and which licence would be most suitable. It should provide you with an awareness of why licensing data is important, the impact licences have on future research, and the potential pitfalls to avoid.

This guide will help you to understand what lay summaries are, how they are used and why they are important. It describes some general guidelines for writing lay summaries and explores some issues and challenges with lay summary provision.

This briefing paper aims to help managers in research institutions build support for developing new services for research data management. It also gives a brief snapshot of the JISC-led programmes on Managing Research Data and Shared Services and the Cloud.

Hydra@Hull is the institutional repository running at the University of Hull. Hydra is a repository solution based on the Fedora software combined with other open source software components, developed over a number of years by the Hydra Partners.

This guide aims to help UK Higher Education Institutions aid their researchers in making informed choices about what research data to keep. The content complements other DCC guides: How to Appraise & Select Research Data for Curation, and How to Develop Research Data Management Services.

This briefing takes stock of recent developments in research funders’ data policies and expectations. The focus is on developments most directly affecting UK Higher Education institutions and research institutes, including the Concordat
on Open Research Data, and recent changes in Cancer Research UK policy.
The briefing will be of particular interest to those within Higher Education responsible for the management or governance of research data. It assumes the reader already has some familiarity with funder policies in this context.