Student working on a laptop and taking notesData Services provides consultation, tools, and education and training to support the entire research data lifecycle, including data management planning, finding and accessing data, analyzing data, acquiring or purchasing data for Libraries' collections, and data sharing and preservation for all members of the CU Boulder community.Ìý

Contact CRDDS@colorado.edu.Ìý

Learn about the Campus Research Data Management Initiative

Data Management Planning

  • ConsultationsÌýon writing Data Management Plans for grant proposals as well as general data management planning
  • : online tool for creating custom Data Management Plans to meet specific funder requirements
  • Data Management Best Practices
  • Guide to funding agency data sharing requirements:

Get Data

  • Libraries' guide to finding
  • Check out , , and Ìý(beta) to search for data resources available on the web
  • Contact us for help navigating data requests from third parties, licensing, or other data questions

Working with Data

  • Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) workshops and
  • Find an Ìýor information about
  • Walk-in consulting with and
  • For Research Computing, HPC, and other supercomputing needs contact rc-help@colorado.edu
  • Partner with us to host a
  • Request a library research seminar

Share and Preserve Your Data

  • Use theÌýÌýto ensure that your data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-useable
  • Ìýcan be usedÌýtoÌýpublish your research data
  • Digital Object IdentifierÌý(DOI) Services: The Libraries are a member of , the leading global provider for datasets. Through this membership we can register DOIs for dataÌýhoused in our repositories enabling data to be persistently identified, accessed, and cited. We are also open to working with other CU affiliated unites that need to register their own DOIs as long as their systems adhere to accepted best practices.Ìý
  • Open Science Framework for Institutions (OSF) is a research collaboration tool that can be used to share and manage data and other project materials

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