Data Management for Researchers

Are you a researcher and want to learn more about managing your data? Try the book “Data Management for Researchers”!

Data Management for Researchers

Summary: A comprehensive guide to everything scientists need to know about data management, this book is essential for researchers who need to learn how to organize, document and take care of their own data. Researchers in all disciplines are faced with the challenge of managing the growing amounts of digital data that are the foundation of their research. Kristin Briney offers practical advice and clearly explains policies and principles, in an accessible and in-depth text that will allow researchers to understand and achieve the goal of better research data management.

Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success was published in September 2015. It is available from Pelagic Publishing.

Here’s what people are saying:

“[I] intend to give a copy of this book to each graduate student / trainee that joins my lab” – Christie Bahlai, Practical Data Management for Bug Counters

“Kristin Briney’s Data Management for Researchers: Organize, maintain and share your data for research success is a book that should be on the shelf (physical or virtual) of every librarian, researcher and research administrator. Scientists, engineers, social scientists, humanists — anyone who’s work involves generating and keeping track of digital data. This is the book for you.” – John Dupuis, Confessions of a Science Librarian

“An excellent practical treatise on the art and practice of data management, this book is essential to any researcher, regardless of subject or discipline.” – Robert Buntrock, Chemical Information Bulletin

“The book is clear to read and well-presented and written and provides an excellent introduction to data management for researchers.” – Gareth Cole, ARIADNE

“I cannot recommend this slender, seemingly innocent looking book enough – it will literally change how you think about data management.” – CBatt

“This practical handbook can help bring new researchers quickly up-to-speed on the topic, as well as serve as a reference to meet specific data management needs they encounter throughout the data life cycle.” – Enid Karr, Journal of eScience Librarianship

“Author Kristin Briney addresses the many issues in research data management for academics in an accessible format that’s easy to follow.” – Kristen LaBonte, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

“This concise book, Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success, offers sound advice on all aspects of data management, in an accessible style.” – Andrew Cox, Multimedia Information & Technology

“Briney takes the reader through a pragmatic and sensible route through the activities of data management.” – David Bawden, Alexandria

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