How we can help

Library Services research support team can help you with all aspects of research data management throughout the research lifecycle.

• We provide training for doctoral students and research staff within established University training programmes
• We provide bespoke training sessions for individual researchers or research teams
• We review data management plans
• We provide an enquiries service about all aspects of research data management
• We administer the OU's institutional data repository, Open Research Data Online (ORDO)

To use any of these services, please contact the Library Research Support team.

Research Data Management Training

We offer a suite of training sessions focused on Research Data Management for postgraduate research students and research staff. Sessions are held online through MS Teams and are recorded. 

The listings below show all our RDM training sessions which are each run twice a year, with links provided to previous session recordings and slides.  To sign up to future sessions, please see the main Training page of our website.

• Data day-to-day: hints and tips for good research data management (login required)
• Writing successful Data Management Plans (login required)
• FAIR’s fair: how to share your research data (login required)
• Data sharing: legal and ethical issues (login required)
• Future-proof your data: preparing your research data for sharing and preservation (login required)
• Using ORDO to archive and share research data (login required)