Book Review: Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success

Abstract

In the early days of the 21st century, university, publisher, and funder requirements for data management by researchers changed rapidly. Government open-data mandates, data management plans, and the development of institutional and disciplinary data repositories have put an end to casual storage of data on graduate assistants’ laptops. In Data Management for Researchers: Organize, maintain and share your data for research success, Kristin Briney, a Data Services Librarian at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee with research experience in Chemistry, provides a brief introduction to data management. This practical handbook can help bring new researchers quickly up-to-speed on the topic, as well as serve as a reference to meet specific data management needs they encounter throughout the data life cycle.