ENVIR ST 717 Seminar (Fall 2025; Spring 2026) : Managing Your Data

UW-Madison Research Data Services (RDS) can help you learn how to efficiently curate and share your data and code. RDS is an interdisciplinary organization committed to advancing research data management practice on the UW-Madison campus, with a focus on providing researchers with the tools and resources that support their efforts to store, analyze, and share data.

Additional data services resources:

When needing to publish your research data in order to comply with the requirements of funding agency or publisher, UW-Madison offers the following two solutions, Dryad and Minds@UW. Both resources make your data publicly accessible, provide DOIs upon deposit, and steward your data into the future. In order to decide which one may work best for you, visit the Data Repositories page for additional information and requirements.

• Dryad
  UW-Madison is a member of Dryad, an open-access data repository, where you can publish and share your research data for free with the institutional membership.
• Minds@UW
  UW-Madison's open access institutional repository is designed to preserve digital materials related to the university's research mission. Content may include research papers and reports, pre-prints and post-prints, datasets and other born-digital or digitized primary research materials.

See also...storage options for working data: UW-Madison's Data Storage Finder
UW Madison has many storage options. Use this discovery tool to find the right campus storage service for your data situation (or browse using its comparison chart).

• Introduction to Research Data Management (online micro-course)
  Provides an introduction to research data management essentials. Covers reasons to invest time and effort into good data management, introducing best practices to incorporate into your research process immediately.
• Responsible Data Planning, Use, and Sharing (online micro-course)
  Provides an introduction to the current landscape of policies and regulations that inform working responsibly with research data, with guidance for developing plans for data management and data sharing.