Research Guides: Linguistics: Managing Research Data

Manage Your Research Data

Research data is data created, generated or collected as part of a research project, including numeric data, text, transcripts, images, video and audio recordings and more. Good research data management prevents data loss, keeps data secure and facilitates data sharing.

Learn more at the UBC Library Research Data Management website.

UBC Library Research Data Management Services

UBC Library offers advice and services for research data management, including:

Data Management Plans to comply with funding agency requirements
(e.g. Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management )
UBC Abacus Data Network - manage and share your data

Learn more at the Research Data Management website.

Multidisciplinary Data Repositories

Dataverse - is an open source application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. UBC Library can create a Dataverse setup for your research group where you can actively manage your data, share it securely with colleagues, provide version control, establish a permanent data citation and more.
Dryad - a curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable and citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a growing list of journals; submission of data from other publications is also welcome.
Figshare - provides limited free storage space for research data from any discipline. You can make your data public or limit access.

Open ICPSR - provides a space to share and store social and behavioral sciences research data. UBC is a member of ICPSR, so the deposit fee is waived for UBC researchers.
SSRN eLibrary - Social Science Research Network is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.