Further Resources on Data Management

For those who are interested in learning more on data management, we recommend the following, freely available, courses and guides:

Online Courses

• MANTRA is a free online course on research data management which is provided by the University of Edinburgh.
• Online course modules are also available at the Responsible Conduct of Research (RDR) website at Northern Illinois University.
• Knowledge Base + is provided by Jisc Collections and helps UK libraries to manage their e-resources more efficiently.

English Guides

• Interdisciplinary guides on data management have been published by various organizations, we recommend introductory resources of the following institutions:
  • Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
  • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  • UK data archive
  • Open Science Framework’s Best Practices Guides
• The American Psychological Association has recently published a guide on Ethical Choices in Research which contains chapters on data management and misconduct with data.
  • Cooper, H. M. (2016). Ethical Choices in Research: Managing Data, Writing Reports, and Publishing Results in the Social Sciences.

German Guides

• PsychData-Handbuch [PsychData Manual] offers guidance on data management in Psychology and how to deposit data with the research data center PsychData.
• forschungsdaten-bildung counsels researchers on data management related issues in educational sciences and associated legal aspects of data management.
• WissGrid Leitfaden zum Forschungsdaten-Management includes guidance and a checklist on data management in data-intensive research.