Why manage research data?
Managing your research data helps you:
- Streamline data collection & findability within your lab or research group
- Achieve greater visibility for your research
- Simplify collaboration and sharing
- Fulfill grant funding agency requirements
We can help! We provide:
- Assistance with developing data management plans for grant proposals
- Advice and support in data documentation and organization to support reuse and preservation
- Access to Northeastern's Digital Repository Service for depositing, sharing, and reusing data
Data management checklists
These checklists, tailored to stages of the research lifecycle, can help you streamline and organize work on your project.
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Before you beginGetting these data-related plans in place before you start a project will help you focus on your research.
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As you workTips for organization, data documentation, file naming - plus strategies to ensure that they run smoothly during your project.
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Publishing, sharing, & preservingCongrats - you're done! Here's our advice on good practices for publishing your results, sharing data, and preserving your outputs before tackling the next project.
General guidance
General guidance for data management
This site offers helpful tips on a host of data management topics, ranging from non-proprietary file formats to naming conventions to persistent identifiers to data documentation.