Data management support for research and environmental assessment
Last changed: 02 October 2025
SLU has a support service that assists staff with issues relating to the management of research and environmental assessment data.
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What is data management?
The concept of data management includes how to organise data, how to store data and how to best publish and share data. Good data management is a prerequisite for transparent, efficient and reproducible research and environmental monitoring and assessment.
SLU's data management support service
To provide support for all aspects of data management, SLU has brought together existing support functions to form a joint support service for research and environmental assessment data. The support service includes data management specialists, IT experts, archivists, lawyers, research advisors, information security specialists and librarians. The units involved in the collaboration are listed in at the bottom of this page.
How to get help
Do you have questions about data management? Email us and we'll make sure the right person helps you. You can also use our online form to book data consultation. We offer personalised guidance and consultation, both for individuals and groups, either online or on-site.
- Email SLU's data management support service: dms@slu.se
- Book data consultation using a web form
Workshops, webinars and department visits
Want to learn more? We regularly organise workshops and webinars on different aspects of data management. We also visit institutions and other entities to present our services.
- Email us to discuss how we can help: dms@slu.se
- The library website provides information on upcoming and past webinars on data management
Quick courses in data management
SLU provides quick courses in the e-learning platform Nanolearning. The first course below is about the basics of data management, the other courses also cover other areas.
- Quick course: Data management at SLU (coming soon)
- Information security training
- The Legal Unit sends out a quick course on data protection to all new recruits.
Guides and other resources
There is a lot of information on data management on the staff website and the SLU University Library website.
About data management on the library website:
Data management guides
- Set up a data management plan in DMPonline
- Storing data during research and environmental monitoring and assessment
- Publish data in the SND repository and Researchdata.se
- Creating data descriptions in the SLU Environmental Data Catalogue
- How to make data FAIR
- Publishing research software openly: Advice and best practices
Data protection
Some examples of topics we can help with
General data management
- SLU's data management policy and how to follow it
- The FAIR principles for data management
- How to organise data
- Data documentation and metadata
- Data files: format, organisation and versioning
- How to find and reuse data
Data management plans
- The DMPonline tool
- Templates for data management plans, customised according to funders' requirements
- Support for creating data management plans
Research applications and funder requirements
- Data management and open science in applications
- Funders' requirements
Data publishing and accessibility
- Advice on suitable data repositories
- Advice on how to prepare data, documentation and code for release
- Review and curation of data for publication in the SND research data catalogue
- Requirements from publishers and journals
Legal aspects, including GDPR
- Handling of personal data in research
- Data sharing agreement
- Transparency and confidentiality
Information security, information classification and risk assessments
- We provide support in the process of information classification, risk assessment and selection of security measures to protect research and environmental data.
ArkiveringArchiving
- Archiving of research and environmental assessment data
- Registration (record keeping) of research data, data management plans, etc.
- Data as public documents
IT
- Storage and backup
- Sharing data within projects
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Data management support for research and environmental assessment