Organising your data effectively can help you identify, locate and use your research data files efficiently and effectively. Organising your files in a logical and consistent way will save time by helping you and others find the correct files, prevent errors and enable reproducibility.
The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide advises on:
Storing your data securely and safely is important, in order to avoid loss, damage, theft or unlawful access. It is inadvisable to store research data on portable storage media or personal computers and laptops, for anything other than short term usage, due to their vulnerability to loss and damage.
DMU Figshare can be used for storing and in-project sharing of research data. It provides GDPR compliant, secure cloud-based storage space, which is regularly backed up. This is available to academic researchers and PhD students.
Policy on Managing Research Data at DMU
"It is the responsibility of researchers to discuss with the relevant departments (e.g. ITMS, Library and Students Services) whether there will be any cost to their project for the storage ..., backup, deposit and retention of the project research data; and to ensure, ... that any costs during the life of the project and after can be covered."
DMU offers the following as part of the Researcher Development Programme:
You can sign up for these via Resjourney
In addition, we recommend this web-based Research Data Management Course:
