Research Data Management On-Demand classes are active from July 7, 2022 through April 24, 2024.
Complete all required activities by April 30, 2024 at 23:59pm to receive credit.
New RDM classes are currently in development and will be available Summer 2024.

Research Data Management On-Demand is made up of 4 stand-alone classes that introduce principles and practices of research data management. There is no particular order or progression in which to take the classes. Expect to spend up to 4 hours on each class learning through tutorials, videos and hands-on activities. 

The individual classes are:
1. Open Science and Data Science
2. Data Curation and Documentation
3. Data Security, Storage and Preservation
4. Data Sharing and Publishing

These courses satisfy Basic Level requirements for the MLA Data Services Specialization .

RDM: Open Science and Data Science (2022-2024)

What is open science, and how does it differ from data science, and research data management? How can library staff support data science in their own work? This introductory, four-hour on-demand course introduces the concepts of open science, data science and research data management through readings, tutorials and videos. After taking this course, you will be able to describe the differences between research data management (RDM), data science, and open science, articulate how open science supports research integrity and reproducibility, and list ways librarian staff can support data science.

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This class is active from June 22, 2022 through April 24, 2024. 

RDM: Data Curation & Documentation (2022-2024)

What is data curation, and how do you do it? This introductory, four-hour, on-demand course describes the definition, types, and elements of data curation that are most important to document in research data management. Through readings, tutorials, videos, and hands-on scenarios you will learn about types of data, which data elements are important to document, and best-practices for file naming conventions. 

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This class is active from July 7, 2022 through April 24, 2024.

RDM: Data Security, Storage, Preservation (2022-2024)

How do you keep data secure and preserved? This introductory, four-hour, on-demand course uses readings, tutorials, videos, and hands-on scenarios to show how to evaluate preservation needs of a dataset, identify appropriate data repositories for a given dataset, examine security/privacy issues with data, and explain how data policies affect data ownership, security, and storage. 

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This class is active from July 17, 2022 through April 24, 2024.

RDM: Data Sharing and Publishing (2022-2024)

What are the FAIR data principles, and how do they relate to research reproducibility? This introductory, four-hour, on-demand course describes principles and challenges of data sharing, as well as data sharing incentives, open data, data citations, and data journals. Through readings, tutorials, videos, and hands-on scenarios you will increase your knowledge about data sharing and publishing. 

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This class is active from June 22, 2022 through April 24, 2024.