Points of contact

At the University of Oxford, and adhered to throughout this site, there are a number of data services available to help you with your data management activities throughout the project lifecycle:

 

Data Management Planning

Support for Researchers at OUCS

For support and advice on IT relating to data development and management.

Research Support (InfoDev)
7-19 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel:  01865 273200
Email:  researchsupport@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Web:  http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/research


Research Services

For queries relating to research funder policy, contact:

Research Services
University Offices
Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JD
Tel:  01865 280467
Email:  research.services@admin.ox.ac.uk
Web:   www.admin.ox.ac.uk/researchsupport

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Ethical and Legal issues

CUREC - Central University Research Ethics Committee

For guidance on the ethical review of research projects involving human participants, contact:

CUREC - Central University Research Ethics Committee
The University of Oxford
Email:  curec@admin.ox.ac.uk
Web: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/curec/faqs/

Legal Services

For more complex issues concerning intellectual property or copyright, contact:

Legal Services Office
University Offices
Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JD
Email:  lsoweb@admin.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 270126

Isis Innovation

For queries relating to exploitation of data for commercial purposes, contact:

Isis Innovation Ltd
Ewert House
Ewert Place
Summertown
Oxford  OX2 7SG
Email:  innovation@isis.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 280830
Web: http://www.isis-innovation.com/about/contact.html

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Organisation and Documentation

Bodleian Libraries have units that collect metadata about their digital collection and they have great expertise on the range of metadata formats and functions. The RTS (contact details above) also provides some advice on metadata for some types of datasets.

For any Bodleian Library data management queries, contact:

Systems and e-Research Services
Bodleian Libraries
Osney One Building
Osney Mead
Oxford
OX2 0EW
Tel: (01865) 280040
Web:  http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sers/home

 
Keeping Laboratory Notebooks

Whilst not seeking to impose rigid requirements for recording research data, the Intellectual Property Advisory Group (IPAG), which is responsible, under Council, for advising on the development of University policy around the management and exploitation of intellectual property, has developed some guidelines for keeping laboratory notebooks.  For more information, visit http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/dmp/documentation/labnotebooks/.

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Data Backup and Security

For general queries relating to data back-up, archive and security, contact Research Technology Services, as above.

Departmental I.T. Support

Departmental I.T. Support: your first port of call for storage of large-scale ‘active’ research data (i.e. when a server is required and not just your hard-drive):  http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/helpcentre/pcsupport/backup-reinstall.xml?ID=body.1_div.1#backup

 

Access & Discovery

Services such as the Social Science Data Library or the Social Science Library provide access to a wide range of data resources and they also assist with data discovery.  Contact:

The Data Library
Tel:  01865 278638
Web:  http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/datalibrary/index.aspx
Email:  jane.roberts@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Publication and Preservation

ORA - Oxford Research Archive

The ORA has started publishing small datasets and metadata of big datasets held at the Oxford e-Research Centre.  Please contact ORA@bodleian.ox.ac.uk  if you wish to discuss the deposit of research data in ORA.  Or see all ORA contacts at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora/contact_ora_staff

Oxford Digital Library

The Oxford Digital Library (ODL) is a core service of the Bodleian Libraries, and, along with ORA, is involved in digital preservation activities to maintain access to their digital collections over time.  For more information, visit http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk

Oxford Digital Library
Michael Popham - Head of the Oxford Digital Library
Bodleian Libraries
Osney One Building
Osney Mead
Oxford OX2 0EW
Web: http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 280025

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