This guide is designed to help researchers, students, and research staff adopt best practices for research data management and enhance the reproducibility of their work. It outlines key principles for organizing, documenting, storing, and sharing data responsibly across the research lifecycle. The guide also provides tools, templates, and resources to support efficient data management and foster transparent, reproducible research.
Research data are the materials collected or created during research that are needed to support, confirm, or reproduce the findings. These can include numbers, text, images, audio, video, software code, or even physical samples.
Examples of research data:
Take a look at your funder's policies for more detailed information about their definitions of research data.