it's the management of your research data, throughout the research cycle including it's collection, organisation, analysis, sharing and preservation.
Effective RDM helps you meet the growing requirements and mandates from funders, institutions, journals, publishers, and scientific organisations for research data sharing.
A research data management plan ensures your data is well-documented and understandable, strengthening transparency, trust, and validation in your work.
Organized and secure storage prevents data loss and allows you to adhere to ethical and legal obligations to protect personal and otherwise confidential data.
Well-managed and correctly shared data increases the visibility of your research, attracts citations, and facilitates opportunities for collaboration and recognition.
A Data Management Plan (DMP) allows you to describe your data use throughout the research cycle. It is a “living” document, that can be updated as plans for your data and your research project progress.
Tools such as DMP Online can help you create a DMP in a format that may be required by your funder, research authorising body or supervisors.
Contact the Research Data Management Librarian: therese.ahern@mtu.ie to develop or review your Research Data Management Plan.
For more in-depth information on the fundamentals of open science and open research, please visit MTU’s Open Education Resource (OER), “Foundations of Open Science” on Canvas.
