Research Data Services

We help faculty, student, and staff researchers to organize, analyze, store, and share their research data.  We can help prepare data management plans (DMPs) for grant proposals, consult on best practices for storage and preservation, help optimize sharing and discovery of data, and assist with your data visualizations.  We work with ITS, OSP, and others to advance research data management at Dartmouth College.

Contact us directly for assistance:

• The Library:  ResearchDataHelp@groups.dartmouth.edu

• ITC - Research Computing: research.computing@darmouth.edu

• Office of Sponsored Projects: sponsored.projects@dartmouth.edu

Write a Data Management Plan

• Create a data management plan with the DMPTool

• Meet funder requirements

• Request a DMP review

Find Data

• Discipline specific help

• Data repositories

Organize and Analyze Data

• File naming and organization

• Cleaning data

• Visualizing data

Share Data

• Find data centers or repositories

• Data citation

• Licensing your data

Services

• Instruction

• Individual consultations

• Workshops

DMPTool   An online tool to help you write a data management plan.  Select "Get Started", locate Dartmouth in the pull down menu, and access Dartmouth specific information and help, along with templates from funding agencies, models and advice.

Measuring Impact of Data

• How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics 
• This easy to follow guide from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) covers the key points and tools for making data reusable and tracking that use. 
• The Make Data Count Project is working towards standard ways to develop and provide usage data for datasets. 

• University of California, San Diego Data Management Plans from Research Cyberinfrastructure 

• University of California Los Angeles Data Tools and Mangement Plans for the Digital Humanities

• University of Connecticut University Libraries  Data Management Plans for Grant Funded Projects (NSF, NIH)

• Duke University Libraries Research Data Planning at Duke

• University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library Data Managment Plans

• University of Minnesota Library Managing Your Data

• MIT Libraries Manage Your Data: Data Management Subject Guide

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries Research Data Toolkit Resources for Writing a Data Management Plan

• Purdue University Distributed Data Curation Center

• University of New Hampshire Data Managerment Guide

• University of Virginia Library Making Data Management Easier

• University of Wisconsin Research Data Services

• Australian Data Management: Guides, Tools and Models