2023 Library ‘Research Data Guide’
The 11th edition of the EUI Library Research Data Guide was published on 18 April providing information about data discovery, data use, data preservation and data sharing. There are ten sections: 1. Data discovery and the EUI Library Data Portal; 2. Data generation, data protection, data processing and ethical use; 3. Data management plans; 4. Research data management in Horizon Europe, ERC and other EU programmes; 5. Managing data during the research project cycle; 6. Repositing and preserving data in the EUI research repository Cadmus; 7. Open Data, FAIR Principles and Open Science; 8. Qualitative and unstructured data in the humanities and social sciences; 9. EUI infrastructure, software, protocols and support; and 10. International research data guidelines. | Download the PDF version here.
The table of contents of the 2023 Library Research Data Guide follows below.
1. Data discovery and the EUI Library Data Portal
1.a The EUI Library Data Portal
1.b Registration for access to Library-hosted micro-socioeconomic data
1.c Access to Eurostat micro-socioeconomic data
1.d Terms and conditions of use and database copyright
1.e Annual call for EUI early stage researcher funding applications
1.f Access to data at other institutions and open data resources
2. Data generation, data protection, data processing and ethical use
2.a Data protection
2.b EUI Ethics Committee review: processing and use of sensitive data
2.c Information Security Risk Assessment
2.d Anonymisation and pseudonymisation
2.e Library Secure Data Room and security protocols
2.f Third-party data access
3. Data management plans
3.a Generating a data management plan (DMP)
3.b EUI support for principal investigators and project managers
3.c Data management planning tools
4. Research data management in Horizon Europe, ERC and other EU programmes
5. Managing data during the research project cycle
5.a Data input and quality control
5.b Secure storage and network backup during the research project
5.c Structure, folders, files, variables, format and versioning
5.d Documentation and codebooks
5.e Deletion of sensitive data at the end of the research project
6. Repositing and preserving data in the EUI research repository Cadmus
6.a Preparing data for reposit in Cadmus
6.b Completing the dataset submission form
6.c Metadata
6.d Linking datasets and publications
7. Open Data, FAIR Principles and Open Science
7.a Data repositories and Library support
7.b Data metadata and access rights
7.c FAIR data principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
7.d Pre-registration research plans
8. Qualitative and unstructured data in the humanities and social sciences
8.a Protection and ethical use of qualitative data
8.b Support, software and infrastructure for qualitative data
8.c Research data management and data management plans for qualitative data
8.d Metadata for qualitative data
8.e Qualitative data archiving, preservation and access
9. EUI infrastructure, software, protocols and support
10. International research data guidelines.
PDF version of 2023 Library Research Data Guide