National resources: United Kingdom
Introduction
This page provides an overview of the data management resources in the UK. The target audience is the scientific community in the life sciences and collaborators.
Funder policies, guidelines and data management plan (DMP) templates
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Concordat on open research and Open access policy
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC): DM guidelines, DMP template and Data sharing policy
- Medical Research Council (MRC): DM guidelines, DMP template and Data sharing policy
- Wellcome Trust: DM and sharing guidelines
- The Royal Society: DM and sharing guidelines
- Cancer Research UK: DM and sharing guidelines
- Horizon 2020: DM guidelines and DMP template
National policies and recommendations for research data
- UK Data Protection Act (2018)
- The Five Safes framework enabling data services to provide safe research access to data
Domain-specific infrastructures/resources
- NHS Research Scotland: Scotland Data Safe Haven programme
- SAIL Databank: UK Secure eResearch Platform in Wales
- Genomics England: The Research Environment
- NHS England: Trusted Research Environment service
- UK Data Service Secure Lab providing controlled access to sensitive and confidential data
- The Safepod Network providing approved researchers with access to sensitive data
- UK Biobank large-scale biomedical database and research resource
- CLIMB-BIG-DATA project providing cloud infrastructure and storage for big data microbial bioinformatics
Relevant tools and resources
Skip tool table| Resource | Description | Related pages |
|---|---|---|
| FAIRDOM-SEEK | A data Management Platform for organising, sharing and publishing research datasets, models, protocols, samples, publications and other research outcomes. |
Data storage Documentation and metadata |
| DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. It contains the latest funder templates and best practice guidelines to support users to create good quality DMPs.
DMPRoadmap
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Data Steward: research Researcher Data management plan |
| COPO | COPO is an open source data brokering platform that helps researchers annotate their data with metadata conforming to repository standards, and supports submission of data to a number of these public repositories |
Data Steward: research Researcher Documentation and metadata |
