Advice on data management is always more useful when it is discipline-specific. The Archaeology Data Service has produced a modular guide, Managing Research Data in Archaeology, that does just that.

Universities worldwide are increasingly driven by the need to improve their research performance. This involves attracting, supporting and retaining the best researchers. The provision of good facilities and good research support helps keep good researchers from leaving.

Citizen science, also known as crowdsourcing, is on the increase, and is being written about in scholarly journals.

How ready is your institution to manage the research data it generates? Do you know? Do you need tools to figure it out?

CARDIO (Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives) is a UK-developed toolkit, which can be used to

Working papers from the 2011 Workshop on Research Data Lifecycle Management are now available. The workshop was held from July 18-20, 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Papers include:

• Management and Preservation of Research Data: Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?
• Communicating Scientific Data from the Present to the Future.
• An Excel Add­-in to Make Scientific Data Publishable, Shareable and Archiveable.

Papers from the Research Data Management Policy Summit, hosted by the University of Sydney, in June, are now available.