Research Guides: UC ANR and Cooperative Extension Resources: Data Management

Data Management

The UC Davis Library assists researchers working across the research data lifecycle. For assistance with any of the services and tools below, please contact dataservices@ucdavis.edu.

Preparing, Preserving, and Sharing Data

UC Davis librarians can help with:

Writing a data management and sharing plan
Finding existing data sets: state, federal and non-governmental
Navigating data management requirements for grants
Utilizing data management tools
Publishing data
Data sharing agreements
Data repositories

Research Data Management Guide
This guide provides information on the various steps involved with research data management - the practice of organizing, storing, preserving, and sharing research data.
DMPTool
The DMPTool is a free service that helps researchers and institutions create high-quality data management plans that meet funder requirements.
Data Management Plans
This guide provides an overview and links to resources on how to prepare a Data Management Plan. A DMP outlines how data will be collected, organized, stored, secured, shared, and preserved in a research project. This includes data collection methods, organization, storage, sharing, preservation, ethics, and researcher responsibilities.
Dryad
Dryad is an open and curated data publishing platform for researchers to share and publish their data. All UC campuses are institutional members of Dryad.
EZID
EZID makes it easy to create and manage long-term, globally unique identifiers (i.e. DOIs) for your data and sources, ensuring their future discoverability.

Analyzing Data

UC Davis DataLab can help with:

Data gathering and cleaning
- APIs, webscraping, geospatial (GIS), optical character recognition (OCR), text mining
Data analysis and prediction
- Modeling, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence (AI)
Data visualization
- Graphing, mapping, virtual reality
Using open-source software
- R, Python, Julia, QGIS, Git and GitHub, Command Line, etc.

Email datalab@ucdavis.edu to learn more about getting help with analyzing data.

UC ANR and Cooperative Extension Resources

Data Management

Preparing, Preserving, and Sharing Data

Analyzing Data

Research Support

Request a Data Management Services consultation