Training & tools

Internal Training

IT Services - IT Learning Programme (ITLP)

The IT Learning Programme provided by IT Services brings together in one place a wide range of resources and courses offered by the University, including a number relating to research data management and research information management - conveniently listed on their website under the category Research Data Management.  

There are many self-service learning resources, downloadable from the site, with useful 'Related Resources' links for further help.  For taught courses, the content ranges from introductory to advanced, and each course is typically offered once or twice each term. 

The ITLP Portfolio can be accessed here.

Bodleian Libraries courses

The Bodleian Libraries offer various training courses/sessions on subjects related to data management, eg.managing your information using reference management and other tools. 

See http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training for more information.

Research Skills Toolkit

The Research Skills Toolkit  is a website offering a selection of IT tools and online services designed to help post-graduate researchers in their work.  It complements a series of live events held at IT Services. 

Oxford Supercomputing Centre (OSC)

Throughout the year OSC offers opportunities to learn about the High Performance Computing facilities available to members of Oxford University.  OSC courses are hands-on, free of charge and open to all staff and students. For more information, click here.

External Training

DCC (Digital Curation Centre) Training & Workshops

 http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training or  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training or subscribe to the DCC RSS feed:  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/all/feed.

Digital Curation 101

This intensive, three-day DCC course is designed to meet the specific needs of data custodians. An introductory course, DC 101 Lite, which distils the same content into half a day, is also available for complete beginners.  Upcoming courses will be posted here:  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/digital-curation-101.

UK Data Archive Training & Events

Training courses and other events run by the UKDA will be posted here:  http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/advice-training/events.

MANTRA (online Research Data Management training course for DPhil students)

MANTRA can be found at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/index.html.

Further Advice

DMP Online

DMP Online: a web-based tool to assist users to create personalised data management plans according to their context or research funder.

UK Data Archive 

UK Data Archive: a comprehensive, modularised, and web-based guidance on data management and sharing.

Digital Curation Centre

Digital Curation Centre: policy tools and guidance.

Sherpa Juliet

Sherpa Juliet: Summary of research funders' open access policies.

Sherpa Romeo

Sherpa Romeo: Publisher copyright policies