National resources: United Kingdom

Introduction

This page provides an overview of the data management resources in the UK. The target audience is the scientific community in the life sciences and collaborators.

Funder policies, guidelines and data management plan (DMP) templates

• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Publishing your research findings, Concordat on open research and Open access policy

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC): DM guidelines and Data sharing policy
• Medical Research Council (MRC): DM guidelines, DMP template and Data sharing policy
• Wellcome Trust: DM and sharing guidelines
• The Royal Society: DM and sharing guidelines
• Cancer Research UK: DM and sharing guidelines
• British Heart Foundation: DM and sharing guidelines
• Horizon 2020: DM guidelines and DMP template

National policies and recommendations for research data

• UK Data Protection Act (2018) is the UK’s implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• The Five Safes framework enabling data services to provide safe research access to data
• Goldacre Review into how the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis can benefit patients and the healthcare sector
• Building Trusted Research Environments; the paper covers principles, approaches and guidelines for data sharing and linkage practice within TREs, as well as examples of best practices.

Domain-specific data infrastructures

• CLIMB-BIG-DATA project providing cloud infrastructure and storage for big data microbial bioinformatics
• Digital Curation Centre Organisation offering a range of services to assist UK institutions in digital curation and data management
• Genomics England: The Research Environment
• Health Data Research Innovation Gateway Search engine/portal to discover and access UK health-related datasets, and any associated health data resources such as tools, projects, and publications
• NERC EDS (Natural Environment Research Council Environmental Data Service) providing data stewardship services for environmental data
• NHS England: Trusted Research Environment service
• NHS Research Scotland: Scotland Data Safe Haven programme
• SAIL Databank: UK Secure eResearch Platform in Wales
• UK Data Service Secure Lab providing controlled access to sensitive and confidential data
• The Safepod Network providing approved researchers with access to sensitive data
• UK Biobank large-scale biomedical database and research resource
• UK Data Archive collection of social, economic and population data
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink CPRD supports public health and clinical studies in the UK, by maintaining a collection of anonymised health datasets representing the UK population.

Tools and resources

Tailored to users in United Kingdom

Developed and/or deployed by institutions and organisations in United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom contributes to

Institutions and organisations in United Kingdom are actively involved in the development of the following tools and resources.

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