CREATE & MANAGE DATA

TRAINING RESOURCES

SHARING YOUR DATA - WHY AND HOW

OVERVIEW

Data created from research are valuable resources that can be used and re-used for future scientific and educational purposes. Sharing data facilitates new scientific inquiry, avoids duplicate data collection and provides rich real-life resources for education and training.

AREAS OF COVERAGE

  • Why share research data?
  • Research funders and journals
  • How to share your data

RESOURCES AVAILABLE

  • PowerPoint presentation on 'Benefits of managing and sharing your data'
  • Exercise 1: Barriers to sharing research data (no answers)
  • Exercise 2: Reasons not to share data
  • Exercise 2 Answers: Reasons not to share data

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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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