ANDS for Researchers
What we do
ANDS helps researchers to organise and manage their research data, promote and share it with other researchers, and locate other research data useful to them. We primarily engage at the institutional level, by funding projects to build infrastructure and share large numbers of research data collections. However, we can also assist individual researchers through our online services and our guides about issues in data management and sharing. We also run seminars and training sessions, and carry out site visits to assist with the technical details of data sharing.
If you have research data that you would like to share, please contact us. We can put you in touch with other people at your institution, or discuss potential approaches, depending on the scale and kind of data.
Online services
- Research Data Australia
Browse the Austalian Research Data Commons, to find research collections and other researchers relevant to your work. - Publish My Data
Easily register an individual data collection in the Australian Research Data Commons. - Register My Data
A more powerful way to register a data collection, an individual or organisation, a service, or a research activity. Some training may be required. - Identify My Data
Easily assign a persistent identifier to a data collection, which can be used in publications.
All of these services are intended as low-barrier-to-entry starting points, for researchers without access to local data publishing infrastructure.
Resource topics
Guides
These guides are particularly relevant to individual researchers working without institutional infrastructure.
About ANDS Products and Services
- ANDS Discovery Services and the Australian Research Data Commons | [PDF]
- Using Research Data Australia to find research datasets produced by or relevant to Australian researchers
- Identify My Data | [PDF]
- Guide to obtaining unique identifiers for research datasets or other resources
- Register My Data | [PDF]
- Explains how institutions can share information about datasets created by their researchers with Research Data Australia
- Publish My Data | [PDF]
- Explains how researchers can share information about their own research datasets with Research Data Australia
Using ANDS Products and Services
- Research Data Australia | [PDF]
- An introduction to Research Data Australia and the Australian Research Data Commons
- Persistent identifiers (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- Introduction to persistent identifiers and how they work.
Issues Around Sharing Data
- Copyright and data | [PDF]
- Explains how copyright applies to research datasets
- Creative Commons and Data [PDF]
- Describes the use of open content licensing for research datasets
Data Management
- Data management planning (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- A basic level guide to what needs to be included in a data management plan
- Metadata (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- An introduction to metadata (data about data).
- ANDS and Data Storage (Awareness level) | [PDF]
- An introduction to data storage requirements under the Code for Responsible Conduct of Research along with different types and places for data storage.
- The Data Curation Continuum | [PDF]
- Explains how effective sharing and re-use of research datasets is built upon end-to-end data management processes
- Data Citation | [PDF]
- Guide to the issues around data citation, and activities underway to change the culture around data citation in order to support improved data management and sharing.
- File Formats | [PDF]
- Choosing a suitable file format for data preservation and sharing, a process that is more important and more subtle than it might seem.
