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Research Data Management Services at OCAD University

This guide will provide information on research data management (RDM) including policy, planning, security, description, and sharing based on best practices.

Research Services, IT Services, and the Library are working together to support researchers in managing their data from the moment of funding, through to publication of research results. The Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy came into effect on March 1, 2023. In response OCAD University released our Research Data Management Strategy. 

The agencies believe that research data collected through the use of public funds should be responsibly and securely managed and be, where ethical, legal and commercial obligations allow, available for reuse by others.

- Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, 2021

Our institutional strategy outlines the ways OCAD University will support planning, storage, preservation and sharing of research data. This guide will continually evolve to point users to best practices, free resources, and tools to meet all data requirements required of research projects at OCAD University.

The objective of this policy is to support Canadian research excellence by promoting sound RDM and data stewardship practices. This policy is not an open data policy.

- Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, 2021