In the most recent issue of D-Lib Magazine, Natasha Simons examines the growing culture of data citation around use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System. In discussing the recent collaboration between ANDS and DataCite to produce the Cite My Data Service, and the implementation of DOIs at Griffith University, she reveals the complexities and benefits of adopting DOIs for research data collections i

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.

Jonathan Breezie, of Symplectic UK, uses prezi to introduce the subject of research data management.

The Guardian has made all the data it has reported in the Data Blog available for download.

A new fact sheet, Archiving Research Data, has been added to our set of data management fact sheets today. The fact sheets are part of the Library's Research Support service. Please feel free to comment on any of the fact sheets or to suggest new ones.

If you want free online training in managing research data, then Research Data MANTRA may be the site for you. It is a course designed for PhD students and anyone else who needs to plan a research project using digital data. The course is modular. Existing sections include:

The Federal Government has funded a number of initiatives aimed at boosting Australian research infrastructure. The $50m Research Data Storage Infrastructure project is one, and the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NecTAR) project is another.

UK higher education institutions have come under increasing pressure to manage the data generated by their researchers that cannot be curated by subject-based data centres and repositories ‒ and many were unsure how to do this, given the absence of advice, examples and good practice.

Bailing out overstretched banks was a costly feature of the global financial crisis.