Start planning
Consider how to manage your research data to:
- avoid theft, loss, accidental disclosure and intellectual property disputes
- save time through efficient data capture, handling and processing
- comply with funding agencies and publisher requirements to make your research data available
- support validity and reproducibility of your research outputs
- share, licence and archive your data on project completion.
Develop a plan
A research data management plan will help you decide how to manage data safely and securely throughout your project including data storage, ownership, classification, sharing, retention and archiving. Your data management plan should be a dynamic document and be co-developed with research partners.
Download templates and example plans
Know your responsibilities
Researchers have a responsibility to maintain clear, accurate and secure records of their work—including research data and primary materials. Good data management isn’t just best practice—it’s essential for ensuring the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of research.
Responsible conduct of research
Consult the:
- Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
- NHMRC guides that support the code.
Be familiar with Griffith’s policies and guides that apply to working with research data.
Ownership, rights and ethics
- Use Data Transfer Agreements where Griffith University is supplying or receiving research data from a third party.
- Manage human research data according to Griffith's Human Research Ethics manual.
Ensure you meet copyright obligations and identify who owns research data copyright, contact the Copyright and Information Policy Officer if required.
Frequently asked questions
Research data management
Learn how to organise, manage and save your data to protect its quality and validity.
Indigenous data
Indigenous data refers to data, information or knowledge—including statistics—about Indigenous communities or individuals. As defined by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, this may include data about lands and environment, people and cultures. Indigenous Data Sovereignty (PDF 1.3MB) is the right of all Indigenous peoples, communities and organisations to decide how they wish to maintain, control, protect, develop, and use data related to them or their Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (PDF 1MB) ( ICIP ).
Partner with Indigenous peoples and apply the CARE principles, to co-design research data management plans, ensuring Indigenous data sovereignty rights are respected at all stages of research.
Consult the following guidelines when working with Indigenous data:
- NHMRC guide to ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities
- #30 Research with Australian Indigenous Peoples (PDF 2.2MB)
- The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ( AIATSIS ) code of ethics
- Indigenous Partnership Principles (PDF 649KB) National Environmental Science Program.
Get advice and support when planning research with Indigenous peoples.
Find and reuse existing data
Find and evaluate datasets for diverse research projects.
Find text mining resources and tools.
Find data portals with supporting computational platforms
Use it, cite it
Cite and reference data using different styles.
Quickly and easily create a citation for datasets with a DOI .
Store data
Ensure your research data is kept safe from loss, theft, misuse or accidental disclosure.
Research staff and HDR candidates can use Griffith University research data storage solutions, including:
- Research Drive—storage for datasets that are frequently and actively accessed.
- Research Vault—storage for datasets that are infrequently used and stored for long term retention.
- Microsoft 365—collaborative storage space with an easy-to-use web and desktop interface (that is, SharePoint).
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