NEWS

For many years, we have providing email support to our researchers on research data matters using our shared 'research-data' email address. Don't worry, that won't be going away any time soon, but the way we handle the messages that come...

The FAIR data principles aim to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. You can read more about the FAIR principles in this Scientific Data article.

The University of Bath Research Data Archive is celebrating its 100th DOI! Since launching in 2015, the Archive has made more than 100 datasets available.  We create Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for our datasets.  This makes them citable in the...

As the University of Bath's Research Data Archive has minted its 100th DOI, and also reached that important 21 (month!) anniversary, we've updated our infographic to give basic info about the archive and how it's being used.

Nature have recently updated their policies around research data with a Data availability statement and data citations policy.

A Concordat on Open Research Data has been launched by HEFCE, RCUK, Universities UK and Wellcome Trust.  

The 15th Research Data Management Forum (RDMF15) was held in London on 27th April 2016, hosted by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC),. I went along to see how what we do here in Research Data compares to what other universities...

This recent blog post from the University of Cambridge gives a valuable insight into how Cambridge is looking to support their researchers in Data Sharing and shows how much planning and strategic thought is involved. At Cambridge, the issue needed the...