Library
Research Data Management
Welcome to the new Research Data Management service
Q: How are you managing your research data?
Q: How safe is your data?
Research Data Management service will assist researchers to manage the growing multifaceted nature of data planning, organizing, storage and sharing of research data, as well as facilitating preservation and re-use of research data.
This service will also assist in ensuring compliance with research funding requirements.
Benefits of Research Data Management
Ensure compliance with the research funders’ requirements
- Increase citations and recognition
- Organize and understand your data
- Enable reproducibility and growth in research output
- Enable national & international research collaboration
- Good research practice
For researchers, it will:
- Provides opportunities for collaboration with other researchers within your discipline, or even with other disciplines
- Facilitates the sharing and reuse of research data for future research
- Reduces the risk of data loss by keeping your research data safe and secure
- Demonstrates research integrity and validation of research results
For institutions, it:
- Showcases research data outputs to a global audience
- Attracts new collaborators and research partners
- Strengthens the research environment and infrastructure
- Ensures compliance with the research data expectations of funders and publishers
Current status at Unisa
- Draft RDM Strategy
- Draft RDM Roadmap
- Data Management Plan Training
- Data Collection
- Data Curation
- Data champions
Responsibilities in Research Data Management
Research Data Management is a joint collaboration amongst various stakeholders in the institution:
- Research Office: Research integrity
- ICT: Infrastructure, Systems
- Library: data curation, data management plan training, advocacy & awareness raising
- Researcher: Research quality & Data deposit
Context
In setting up Research Data Management at Unisa, the following Policy Framework was considered:
Copyright Act of 1978; POPI Act No. 4 of 2013; PAIA, Act 2 of 2000
Policies:
- Collection Development Policy
- Intellectual Property Policy
- Policy on Scholarly Publishing
- Research Ethics
- Research and Innovation Policy
Contact us
Makaba Macanda
E-mail: rdm@unisa.ac.za or macanmb@unisa.ac.za