Open Research

Good data management is a fundamental aspect of the research process and as such already forms part of the University’s Guidelines on Good Practice in Research applicable to all staff and students in addition to their professional or funding body requirements and legislation. To complement these guidelines the University has a Research Data Management Policy and a detailed Research Data Management Procedures and Guidance document which focuses on the practical aspects of implementing the policy including an example checklist for a Data Management Plan. 

A useful starting point for managing your data is DMPonline.  

The University encourages all researchers to make research data available to use by others, and particularly supports open research data wherever this is possible to do so in an ethical and responsible manner. The University supports the Concordat on Open Research Data, and its policy on Research Data Management is commensurate with the goals of this Concordat. That Concordat references the FAIR Principles for (meta)data sharing in Annex 2. 

UEA's Pure research portal can be used to capture metadata on datasets and can also hold some types of research dataset that are not available from another repository. 

The dataset information on your People Page can also link to related research outputs which may be made open access or behind a log in, depending on the status of the data. 

You can search UEA's Pure research portal to Find Research datasets from UEA academics.  

Please see the Pure and Reporting pages about adding dataset metadata to Pure, or contact openresearch@uea.ac.uk for more information. 

• Data Sharing – animated primer from UKRN [3.08] 
• Data Sharing - text primer from UKRN 
• The LEARN Project Toolkit 
• FAIR Cookbook 
• The Turing Way – Open Data 
• FAIR data and software guidance – University of Utrecht