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Learn more about Research Data Curation and get support for depositing data.
Do you need assistance meeting requirements for a grant or publication?
Create ready-to-use data management plans for grant applications using the DMPTool. See examples from UC San Diego NSF proposals.
Get tips on how to meet the NIH requirement for rigor and reproducibility in grant applications.
Read tips on following best practices for research data management.
Manage and register your research projects while keeping your data where you want to keep it, with the OSF. Be sure to choose "Sign in through Institution" so you can use your campus credentials. No need to create another account.
Create persistent identifiers (DOIs and ARKs) for your data using EZID.
Create a researcher identifier to distinguish yourself from all other researchers using ORCID.
Transfer large research data files to or from a collaborator anywhere in the world, with RDL-share. For tips on getting the most out of RDL-share, check out our help page.
Put a copy of your data on a Library server that you and your UC San Diego collaborators can jointly access. Send email to research-data-curation@ucsd.edu.
Do you have research data you want to share with the world or preserve?
Research data deposited at the Library for long term access and preservation is curated and made publicly available through the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. We work with you to help you enhance the discoverability and reusability of your data. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are provided for all data collections so that the data can be cited easily and accessed persistently. The service is free of charge to the campus.
Ready to deposit your data at the Library or just want to learn how it’s done? Complete the consultation request form to set up a meeting with members of the data curation team, or send an email to research-data-curation@ucsd.edu.
Depositors are required to sign the Deposit Terms of Agreement before each research data collection is ingested into the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections.
Need to reserve a DOI for a dataset you will be depositing into the Digital Collections? Use this form to request a DOI.
Research data in the Digital Collections is safeguarded long term in a geographically distributed preservation network, Chronopolis.
Consult re3data.org, an external resource, for an extensive list of non-UC San Diego, discipline-specific repositories.
Search for research data and projects managed by researchers at UC San Diego in the Open Science Framework.
Dryad is an openly available research data curation and publication platform. The University of California now offers Dryad as a free service for all UC researchers to publish and archive their data.
Learn more about data management best practices, creating Data Management plans, or foundational computing research skills. View Library Workshops.
Data management training available for data management best practices and creating Data Management plans using the DMPTool.
Learn foundational research computing skills from certified Carpentries Workshops (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, & Library Carpentry) that cover program design, version control, testing, and task automation.
Looking for data or research projects from UC San Diego?
Search for research data generated by researchers at UC San Diego and deposited into the Library's Digital Collections.
Share and discover the full range of productivity by UC departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars/researchers associated with the University of California, at eScholarship. Or find content specifically from UC San Diego.
Access the KNIT digital humanities platform.