All researchers have a responsibility to properly manage the data they create during the course of their research. This may seem a daunting task as there are a number of factors to consider: the safe storage of data, documenting data appropriately, deciding which parts of your data are important, providing access to data where appropriate […]

All researchers have a responsibility to properly manage the data they create during the course of their research. This may seem a daunting task as there are a number of factors to consider: storing data, documenting data, deciding which parts of your data are important and which parts should be published. It pays to anticipate these […]

The policies, expectations and requirements of funders and academic publishers around research data can appear daunting at first. These call for safe storage of data, documenting data sufficiently, deciding which parts of your data are important, providing access to data where appropriate and ensuring data survives in the long term. This course will introduce the […]

The policies, expectations and requirements of funders and academic publishers around research data can appear daunting at first. These call for safe storage of data, documenting data sufficiently, deciding which parts of your data are important, providing access to data where appropriate and ensuring data survives in the long term. This course will introduce the […]

Levitation! Big data! Dinosaurs! Come and experience some of the University’s unique research outputs. To celebrate International Data Week (11th-17th September) the Research Data Service is hosting a showcase of software and technology developed at the University. Researchers from a range of disciplines will be demonstrating their work in an interactive, hands-on environment, including: Virtual […]

Open Research Seminar Series The next Open Research seminar features Dr Tom Gaunt from the Integrative Epidemiology Unit. Tom will talk about the development of EvidenceHub, a toolkit for epidemiology. New technologies have resulted in a deluge of molecular data collected from participants in population-based cohort studies. Such data offer the potential to reveal information […]

The next Open Research seminar features Julia Mortimer, from Policy Press. Julia will talk about how Open Access looks from the point of view of a publisher and will discuss the challenges and opportunities it brings. This talk will provide an introduction to how one publisher -  Policy Press, based at the University - have […]