Evidence Synthesis, Systematic Review Services : Manage Your Research Data

• 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.

Free, campus resource (supported by librarians and IT professionals) supplying best practice recommendations, education and training on research data management and sharing. 

• Preparing and Writing Your Data Management Plan (DMP)
• Federal Funding Requirements
• Data Storage and Backup
• Data Documentation (Data Dictionaries, Metadata)

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).