Despite the inevitable funding cuts that austerity budgets bring, it's really not a bad time to be a UK researcher - lots of organisations want to help you manage and share your data.

First up, there's the new open access world opening up, courtesy of a UK government mandate.

Then digital-science offered a whole range of useful tools like figshare and LabGuru.

And now the Digital Curation Centre has listed a stack of handy services and tools for sharing output and tracking impact and managing active research data.

If you are a manager of a repository or the curator of a digital collection, there are tools for archiving and preserving information packages, managing and administering repositories and depositing and ingesting digital objects.