CHEE687 Research Skills and Ethics

Research data management (RDM) concerns the organisation of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. RDM helps researchers navigate the increasingly complex landscape of data planning, storage, and sharing.  It is part of the research process, and aims to make the research process as efficient as possible, and meet expectations and requirements of the university, research funders, and legislation.

RDM  concerns how you:

• Create or collect data and plan for its use,
• Organise, structure, and name data (e.g. files),
• Keep it – make it secure, provide access, store and back it up,
• Find information resources, and share with collaborators and more broadly, publish and get cited, allowing for your data to be reused.

• This README template was adapted from the following sources:

  README: File & Folder Schema Example by MIT Libraries Data Management Services. Copyright ©2018 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

  Briney, K. “README.txt”. Blog Post. (2014). Access: http://dataabinitio.com/?p=378

• Adapted from: Research Data Management Onboarding Checklist: Abridged Version by Harvard Longwood Medical Area Research Data Management Working Group, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

• Adapted from the following source: Research Data Management Offboarding Checklist: Comprehensive Version by Harvard Longwood Medical Area Research Data Management Working Group, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

• "The two-page data management and sharing plan is a required part of a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation." Policy: English
• " Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants."

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Policy overview: English
• "The final DMS Policy does not create a uniform requirement to share all scientific data", but there is "an expectation that researchers will maximize appropriate data sharing" as described in Data Management Plans
• "The final DMS Policy requires submission of a [Data Management and Sharing] Plan for extramural grants at application"
• The final DMS Policy states that “[s]hared scientific data should be made accessible as soon as possible, and no later than the time of an associated publication, or the end of the award/support period, whichever comes first.”

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

• Requires data management plan: English
• Generally encourages data sharing in a timely manner, but does not define timelines