NeCTAR's Virtual Laboratories projects are a part of the Australian Government Super Science initiative. They aim to provide a new place to access data repositories and computational tools, collaborate easily, streamline research workflows and enable new opportunities for research innovation.

Projects include:

The UK Data Archive is the largest UK collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities. "Deposit Data our data in use" gives examples how researcher and teacher are using UK Data Archives data.

Examples include:

The mission of the International Council for Science is to ensure the long-term stewardship and provision of quality-assessed data and data services to the international science community and other stakeholders. To support this goal they have developed World Data System (WDS) data portal and activity monitor.
The WDS Data Portal enables retrieval of datasets from members of the World Data System, and is searchable using both geographic and temporal coverage.

Australian National Data Services (ANDS) states while data has often been shared in the past, it is rarely, if ever, cited in the same way as a journal article or other publications might be.

DataCite presents a strong case on how data citation can benefit the research and researcher:

• Enable easy reuse and verification of data.
• The impact of the data can be tracked.
• Recognises and rewards data produces.

Dryad is an international data repository in the basic and applied biosciences. The goal of the repository is to preserve all the underlying data reported in a paper at the time of publications. Recognising the emerging trend of data citation, this is an excellent example of a repository supporting the management of data and sharing. See the November 2011 blog on Dryad for further information.

The latest Australian National Data Service (ANDS) newsletter is now available. This issue examines research data from the perspective of researchers.

Including:

• International partnerships.
• Enabling new and efficient research.
• Big data.
• International engagement.
• Up and coming events.

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Data Repository contains research datasets sourced from NCEAS funded activities. NCEAS, a cross-disciplinary and collaborative institute, has made the repository publicly available through the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) - a network designed to facilitate ecological and environmental research.

The Australian reported on July 11 2012, a plan for the CSIRO to make 200,000 research papers freely available, dating back to the 1920s.
Jon Curran, CSIRO's general manager of communications stated in the article, "we are removing the reasons why staff shouldn't put their work in our open-access repository."

In addition, to the publication repository, the CSIRO is also aiming to create a portal to contain raw research data.

tDAR - the Digital Archaeological Record - is an international digital archive and repository. It houses data about archaeological investigations, research, resources and scholarship, to provide broad access to a wide range of archaeological data.

A video created by the Digital Curation Centre, UK offers an interesting overview of research data management. It provides insights into the researchers' role in managing their data, and also identifies some tools and resources available on the Digital Curation Centre website.

Watch the DCC video - Managing Research Data.