Research Data Management and Open Data and Open Access are increasingly hot topics for researchers.

Increasingly funders are requiring that your research publications are made available in Open Access form. Some are already starting to require that the data behind the research is also made available.

The benefits of having access to each others data are enormous, but so are the hurdles and barriers to getting your data in a fit state to share…….or not, if you’re well prepared. Plenty of researchers in Cambridge are getting prepared – why don’t you join them?

There’s loads of help and advice available at www.data.cam.ac.uk and sessions are regularly scheduled – take a look at some of the options below, and sign up today!

Open Data lunchtime session
12 August 12.30-13.30, Mill Lane Lecture Room 10
http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/events/open-data-lunchtime-session-central-cambridge

RDM workshop for researchers
21 August, 10.30 – 12.00, Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 5
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/research-data-management-open-workshop

Stop. Think. Click: Information Security in a Research Environment
25 August, 12.30-13.30
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/stop-think-click-information-security-research-environment

How to license your software and meet funder’s expectations for sharing research data?
14 September, 11.00 – 15.00 Computer Lab, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD
http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/events/how-license-your-software-and-meet-funders-expectations-sharing-research-data

Copyright – how do I use existing resources?
28 September, 12.00 – 13.30 Mill Lane Lecture Room 5
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/copyright-how-do-i-use-existing-resources

Keep your eyes peeled for more sessions running in Michaelmas Term! All events are listed on the websites:

• Office of Scholarly Communication – http://osc.cam.ac.uk/events &
• Data – http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/events