Skip to Main Content

Postgraduate support: Research data management

This guide is to provide research support to postgraduate student and researchers.

Data Management Planning

Data Management Plan Online tool
DMPonline helps you to create, review, and share data management plans about your research project that meet institutional and funder requirements. Create a free account. It is provided by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC).

Copyright and data citation

Data Citation

Repository such as Figshare, Mendeley, Google datasets from which you downloaded the dataset may provide a citation format.

A standard citation includes the following elements (* = if applicable):

Creators (Publication Year): Title. Version*. Publisher. DOI*

Secondary data sources

SA Institutional data repositories
You may search these repositories for data sets.
Google-DataSets
Dyrad data repository
Has data from any field of research that you can use in your research
Figshare data repository
Discover data sets from all over the world
Mendeley data repository
Search 20.5 million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories
List of subject specific repositories

Research data management

Data sharing repositories

List of subject specific repositories
Figshare data repository
Discover data sets from all over the world
Mendeley data repository
Search 20.5 million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories
Dyrad data repository
Has data from any field of research that you can use in your research

Data publishing -journals

Data Preservation & Storing