Best practices & templates

Data Storage and Backup

• Data storage & backup
• Preserving data

Related:

• Policy: Research Data Management
• Policy: Data Security
• Policy: Managing University Records

Organizing & describing data

• Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)
• Documentation and metadata
• Naming files

Related

• Tools: Readme.txt Template

Data sharing

• Data Repository (DRUM)
• Dryad Institutional Pilot
• Comparing Data Repository Services
• Sensitive data
• Citing data

Related

• Copyright & data ownership
• Research reproducibility

Human subjects data & participant agreements

• Sensitive data
• IRB Considerations

Related:

• Policy: Protected Health Information Policy and Guidance
• Health Information Privacy and Compliance Office
• Confidential Reporting Service for Suspected Misconduct
• Tools: Destroying data

Other Central Data Services

• Office of Information Technology
• Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI)
• Office of Measurement Services (OMS)
• Office of Technology Commercialization

Collegiate or Specialized Data Services

• Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS)
• Center for Applied Research and Educational Innovation (CAREI)
• Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (DASH)
• USpatial: GIS data creation, management, archiving, and sharing
• University Informatics Institute (UMII)
• Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
• Research and Learning Technologies in the College of Biological Science
• Institute for Research on Statistics and it Applications (IRSA)