Data Support provides assistance in questions concerning data management and is in charge of developing this guide: 

► datasupport@helsinki.fi

Tools and services provided or recommended by Data Support: 

► Data management tools and services

Training related to data management:

► Courses and workshops

Do you want to learn more about the kinds of datasets produced in different fields of science? Would you like to use data produced by others? You can start with these data search services:

• The Etsin search service compiles information about Finnish research data in different fields of science.
• Re3data and Fairsharing.org contain catalogued information about international data repositories for different fields of science.

Would you like to improve your data management competence? Here are a few tips that can help you get started:

• Guides for data management:
  • Data Management Guidelines
  • University of Helsinki guidelines for research data management
• Online courses and tools:
  • The learning material for the University of Helsinki Student’s Digital Skills course contains useful information about data management.
  • The DMPTuuli tool can also be used to plan data management for study-related assignments.
  • The Research Data Management course offered by CSC – It Centre for Science covers the different stages of data management. To register for the course, log in with your University of Helsinki username and password or using HAKA authentication.

If you want to read more about data management, here are a few tips:

• Managing and Sharing Data (2011) – The UK Data Archive has encapsulated the essentials of data management in 40 pages.
• Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data (2014)