Research data management incorporated in a Research Information Management system. A case study on archiving data sets and writing Data Management Plans at Radboud University, the Netherlands

Abstract

Wouldn’t it be effective if a CRIS was to be transformed into a one-stop-shop for researchers, advocating the implementation of research data management (RDM) and the FAIR data principles? Such a CRIS would include data registration and sustainable data archiving, combined with the drafting and registration of DMPs as well as project registration, in addition to the more traditional CRIS services.

This paper will use Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) as a good practice of the use of a CRIS in the research life cycle that institutes and researchers, including their research support desks, are dealing with in the FAIR data era. It will illustrate that both researchers and research institutes profit from a CRIS oriented approach to RDM and FAIR data.