Solutions and guidelines for institutional research data management

Abstract

Universities and their central units are increasingly concerned with research data management (RDM) in order to adequately support their researchers. Not least because of new publishing and funding policies, researchers seek advice and guidance on how to handle their research data. To enable universities to quickly and sustainably establish institutional RDM solutions, five universities from Berlin and Brandenburg have developed guidelines and tools in the joint project FDMentor funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The results achieved over a period of two years (2017–2019) in the areas of strategy development, research data policy, legal aspects and competence enhancement are applied beyond the project partners.