Research Data Management: Home
This guide provides information and links to resources for data management, including data management plans, file organization and storage, and data sharing in repositories.
Last Updated: Feb 20, 2025 3:19 PM
Using this Guide
This guide is divided into four sections:
- Plan:
- Write a Data Management Plan
- Compliance with Funder Requirements
- Store:
- Making a Backup Strategy
- File Organization Best Practices
- UB Data Policies and Procedures
- SUNY Policies
- Share:
- Why Share Your Data?
- Finding a Data Repository
- NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy:
- What is the NIH Data and Management Sharing Policy?
- What needs to be included in my DMSP?
- How do I select a data repository for NIH-funded research data?
- Have questions?
Additional Resources
Where can you learn more about data management?
- Data Management (MIT) - A general resource for planning and creating a Data Management Plan. Includes information regarding citations, security and backup, legal issues, and organization.
- Managing Your Data (University of Minnesota) - Provides information regarding the importance of managing your data, as well as a number of presentations, slides, and workshops covering a variety of data management topics.
- Essentials of Data ManagementThe slides from this presentation on research data management, given in October 2019 at the University at Buffalo, were created by Nell Aronoff, Librarian and Liaison to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Rachel Starry, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Science Data Curation.
Data Services Librarian
This research guide was created by UB Libraries' 2018-2020 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Rachel Starry. It is now edited and maintained by Jocelyn Swick-Jemison.