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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:

  1. Plan:
    • Write a Data Management Plan
    • Compliance with Funder Requirements
  2. Store:
    • Making a Backup Strategy
    • File Organization Best Practices
    • UB Data Policies and Procedures
    • SUNY Policies
  3. Share:
    • Why Share Your Data?
    • Finding a Data Repository
  4. 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.

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.

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