Support for Relu award holders

The Relu Data Support Service (Relu-DSS) helps researchers prepare their data management plans, reviews those plans and gives advice where needed. Relu-DSS supports researchers with data management through online data management guidelines developed on the UK Data Archive website, regular training workshops and project visits to discuss project-specific data management.

Under the Relu data policy, award holders are required to:

• prepare a data management plan at the start of a research project
• follow professional codes of conduct in research, especially regarding ethical issues
• properly manage research data during research
• offer datasets and accompanying metadata resulting from a Relu project to the UK Data Archive for archiving, within three months of project completion

The Relu Data Support Service helps researchers through:

• review of data management plans with advice given where needed
• detailed data management guidelines for Relu researchers
• training workshops on key data sharing issues like research ethics, data confidentiality, data protection and copyright
• project visits to discuss data management with each team of resaerchers
• negotiating access to existing data resources
• processing deposited Relu datasets for long-term preservation at the UK Data Archive and the Environmental Information Data Centre