The list of resources below was compiled by Dr Beth Hall, Academic Support Librarian at Bangor University (with help from Bronwen Blatchford, Cardiff Metropolitan University)

1. • Notes on using this resource
Notes
• Requirements analysis
• How to set up a Research Data Management Service
• Benchmarking and connecting with other institutions and keeping up-to-date
• Day to day management of the service
• Systems and Tools
Leading and Delivering the new Service
• Resources to help with Data Management Planning and Funding Applications
• Resources to help researchers doing their Research Data Management
• Sensitive data
Researchers
• Training for librarians
• Data and curation and preservation resources and training
• Resources for teaching data literacy
Librarians
• Advice for IT managers
• Systems and tools
IT Support
• Resources to help with Data Management Planning and Funding Applications
Research Office Staff
Resources Available to Support You with RDM
WHELF Research Group

2. • The list of resources below was compiled by Dr Beth Hall, Academic Support Librarian at Bangor University (with
help from Bronwen Blatchford, Cardiff Met) and is not representative of the large number and variety of resources
available to support RDM; this is a selection based on personal awareness and my judgement on relevancy; it does
not include in-depth guides on advanced topics, and may be missing key resources
• This is intended to be a living document – where we can add more resources if found to be useful. However, the
latest date that this document was edited is at the top of this, page so this will give you an indication as to whether
the URL links will still be working or whether these resources may have moved, have been superseded, or no longer
exist
• The notes entitled “Comments on use” was written by Beth Hall and is my personal opinion, does not represent the
views of WHELF, and will not accurately represent the usefulness of the documents listed (as it all depends on
context and the questions you are asking)
Notes on using this resource 07/03/2016

3. Requirements Analysis
Resource Comments on use
DCC: Discover requirements for RDM services Useful read to understand and identify what needs to change
at your institution, the infrastructure that needs to be set up,
and the stakeholders that are involved.
DCC: AUDIT tool Useful to find out what data practices are currently happening
at your University. Very useful implementation guide with
examples of use. The evidence you gather from running this
exercise is very useful to back up reports to University
management boards.

4. How to set up a RDM Service
Resource Comments on use
DCC: How to Develop RDM Services - a guide for HEIs If you only read one guide – this is the one I would
recommend. Covers broadly all RDM support and gives
practical step-by-step advice
DCC: Making the Case for Research Data Management Useful when making the case to senior managers, I quoted
phrases of this in our report to the University executive
BOOK: Delivering research data management services :
fundamentals of good practice - Pryor, Graham
All round good advice and good for background
Understand costs involved Useful source of costing models
LIBER making the case for RDM: links here and here Nice infographic, could help in communication to senior
management teams

5. Benchmarking or connecting with other institutions and keeping-up-to-date
Resource Comments on use
DCC Case studies and DCC Where are they now? Blog Posts These are useful case studies, however bear in mind that
these institutions have received JISC funding or have been
part of institutional engagement programmes with the DCC
and so have had support to get to where they are now
RESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Useful mailing list, has a strong UK membership and many of
the discussions are on UK funders requirements. Also has a
global membership
JISC DataSpring project: DCC: Extending the Organisational
Profile Document (OPD) to cover RDM and guide available
here
Over 40 HEIs already have OPDs in place
Follow news from the Research Data Alliance on Twitter There are many other useful Twitter accounts you can follow,
and hashtags e.g. #jiscRDM

6. Day to day management of the Service
Resource Comments on use
In development: JISC DataSpring project: DMAOnline – RDM
Administration Analytics, Lancaster University
http://www.dmao.info/
Aiming to provide a single dashboard view of how various
departments contribute to RDM activities and how an
institution is performing in terms of its compliance with policies.

7. Systems and Tools
Resource Comments on use
JISC Shared Service Pilot Interesting to see how this develops, Cardiff University is one
of the pilot institutions
DATACITE metadata and DOIs There is a cost to subscribing, but also there is also a minimum
standard of metadata required by the British Library
DCC guide: Where to keep research data: DCC checklist for
evaluating data repositories
A very useful guide to help researchers make informed choices.
We offer an institutional data repository, but need to ensure this
is a home for data that has no other suitable home, so we need
to understand what other repositories we can recommend and
in which cases they are suitable.
DCC: Tools and Services Catalogue
In development: JISC DataSpring project: Develop a DataVault
- University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester
JISC guide to cloud computing
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/cloud-computing-in-detail
This is something many of our research projects are asking
about
Details of other available data repositories: Registry of
research data repositories

8. Advice for IT managers
Resource Comments on use
DCC: 5 Steps to Research Data Readiness: for IT managers Important to recognise the other stakeholders in the new RDM
service

9. Resources to help with Data Management Planning and Funding
Applications
Resource Comments on use
DCC: Checklist for a data management plan Very useful guide to share with researchers. I like the colour folded
flyer version.
DMPOnline Very useful especially because the output can be uploaded into the
RCUK funding applications platform as it comes out of the tool. The
tool can be tailored by adding institutional advice, no one has translated
into Welsh yet. Some researchers at Bangor felt it was too much and
preferred a shorted checklist.
DCC: How to develop a data management and sharing
plan
Useful, have used this in training sessions
DCC: Track the impact of research data with metrics Useful for researchers to be able to talk about how investment in
research data management will lead to more impactful research
RCUK advice on the individual research council
websites: each council explains their data sharing
policy and what they expect in their data management
plans
Example DMPs from other Universities
 Bristol 1 and Bristol 2 and Bristol 3
 Sheffield 1 and Sheffield 2
 Exeter 1 and Exeter 2
It would be useful if more Universities shared DMPs online, it is difficult
to get agreement from researchers to put anything from their grant
application online, but perhaps could keep some examples on file at
your own institution
DCC Summaries of UK Funder Policies 1 and 2 Useful summaries
Oxford University webpages Useful summary and webpages are CCBY
SHERPA JULIET also includes funder’s data sharing
policies
I don’t think everyone realises that this information is in SHERPA JULIET

10. Resources to help researchers doing their Research Data Management
Resource Comments on use
DCC checklists and how to guides:
 Five steps to decide what data to keep
 Appraise and select research data
 Cite datasets and link to publications
 Five things you need to know about RDM and the Law
 How to license research data
 How to write a lay summary
 Where to keep research data
These DCC guides are very useful because they provide practical
steps that researchers can take, put the key information into a handy
summary and provide links to more information, we take them into
training sessions and use them in one-to-one consultations
MANTRA training
Specific courses for research student, career researcher, senior
academic. Useful if you can recommend to researchers to sit down
and do the course online, you can also use it in delivered training
sessions, and the content can be reused.
DCC: DC 101 materials http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/train-the-
trainer/dc-101-training-materials
UEL TraD http://www.uel.ac.uk/trad/outputs/resources/ Useful information to use in training sessions, material is available in
xerte format
FOSTER training resources https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-
taxonomy/open-data and https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-
taxonomy/research-data-management
Especially useful for European funded projects
Many of the individual subject-specific or funder-specific data
repositories (as listed at http://www.re3data.org/) have advice and
guidance for researchers wanting to deposit data with them, but many
also have guidance on data management planning, and research
data management practices that are relevant outside of the specific
research area.
For example
Oceanography: BODC presented at Bangor in 2015
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/presentations_and_papers/
Archaeology: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/learning
UK Data Archive: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage
JISC guide: How and why you should manage your research data: a
guide for researchers
Useful introduction and pointers to JISC work in this area

11. Sensitive data
Resource Comments on use
UK Data Archive advise on sensitive data http://www.data-
archive.ac.uk/create-manage/consent-ethics
Applicable beyond anyone actually wanting to deposit with the
UK Data Archives

12. Training for librarians
Resource Comments on use
RDMRose http://rdmrose.group.shef.ac.uk/ The materials have recently been revised (2015) so are up-to-
date
DCC course: RDM for librarians
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/rdm-librarians
Materials free to download
Training – MANTRA
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/libtraining.html
DIY training kit for librarians very useful

13. Data and curation and preservation resources and training
Resource Comments on use
DCC Briefing paper on curation
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/introduction-
curation
Thorough guidance, content from 2006-2009 but very useful
COMING SOON – NEW DCC GUIDE - How to guide on
workflows for data preservation and publishing
In development: JISC DataSpring project - Filling the Digital
Preservation Gap - University of York and University of Hull
Phase 2 of project report available at
https://figshare.com/articles/Filling_the_Digital_Preservation_G
ap_A_Jisc_Research_Data_Spring_project_Phase_Two_report
_February_2016/2073220/1
DCC curation resources: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation Brief overview
Digital Preservation Coalition: Digital Preservation Handbook
http://www.dpconline.org/advice/preservationhandbook
Thorough, in-depth, covers all digital materials, but you could
dip in to specific things e.g. file formats

14. Resources for teaching data literacy
Resource Comments on use
DCC: How to track the impact of research data with metrics Useful to see how data is cited
School of Data resources A network of data literacy practitioners, both organizations and
individuals, implementing training and other data literacy
activities in their respective countries and regions
UUK Report: Making the most of data: Data skills training in
English universities
Useful to understand drivers for increased need for data skills
NESTA and UUK report: Analytic Britain Useful to understand the skills needed for employment
In development: JISC DataSpring project - Giving Researchers
Credit for their Data - University of Oxford, F1000 Research,
Wiley
Consult the academic literature e.g. a bibliography in March
2016 would include papers such as:
• Incorporating Data Literacy into Information Literacy
Programs: Core Competencies and Contents
• Data literacy for researchers and data librarians
• Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of
Students and Research Faculty
• Data Sharing and Discovery: What Librarians Need to
Know
• Book: Information and Data Literacy, 2016, edited by
J.Hagen-McIntosh
There is a recent increase in literature on this topic, so there
will be more recent references to read