It's Research Week, and UQ Library is launching a new Research Data Collections form in eSpace. The new form will allow researchers and research groups to describe their data according to good practice.

UQ eSpace can now support either open access or mediated access to your research data collections, and aid the discovery, dissemination and preservation of research data as a first class research output at UQ.

Data registry re3data.org: registry of research data repositories was launched in December 2012.

Major cities such as Sydney have been building underground for over 100 years and developing new underground infrastructure is impacted on by what already exists. Until now there has been no easy way of finding out exactly what is down there. To overcome this, the NSW Government Department of Lands Sydney Down Under project is collecting as much data associated with Sydney's existing underground infrastructure as it can locate, with the aim of revisualising it in 3D format for a mo

Open Exeter Data Asset Framework Survey, is a recently published study by The University of Exeter, on data management practice and attitudes to Open Access. The findings for the University has helped them to gain a better understanding of current research data management practices across different disciplines and with different levels of research experience.

Findings included:

The European Commission's recent announcement on access to scientific data specifically mentions not only scientists and research institutions, but also members of the public as potential users of scientific data.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a United Kingdom national facility designed to hold, manage and distribute data concerning the marine environment. Data holdings include biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, containing measurements of nearly 22,000 different variables.

Researchers at Stanford University have successfully reapplied natural enzymes adapted from bacteria to flip specific sequences of DNA back and forth at will. This switch on/switch off ability means DNA can effectively be 'programmed' - something that could have breakthrough implications for the treatment of ageing and diseases such as cancers.

The research team call their device a 'recombinase addressable data' module (RAD). The RAD can modify specific sections of DNA with microbes that determine how the one-celled organisms will fluoresce under ultraviolet light.

The University of Cambridge Library has developed some well-organised pages called Support for Managing Research Data.

The information is organised into four sections:

Data repositories allow researchers to preserve and share research data over the long term. We aim to showcase a different data repository each week to raise awareness of these services.

University students have come to expect free email, Internet access and data storage when they enrol, though these perks are generally cut off or scaled down after graduation. But the incoming class of Information and Library Science students at the University of North Carolina will get something a lot more valuable and a lot more permanent: free data storage for life.