What are the benefits of research management plan?
What are the benefits of a research management plan?
Answer
Some of the benefits of planning the management and sharing of your research data as early as possible include that it helps you to
- identify issues and strategies early in your research project
- ensure that you have documented your compliance with institutional and funder policies and ethics approval requirements
- make sure that your data remains useful and is stored securely during the lifetime of your project and beyond, so that you can find and understand your data when you need to use it, so that you avoid data loss or data corruption so that there is continuity if project staff leave or new researchers join, and to avoid unnecessary duplication by re-collecting or re-working data
- think about data sharing and reuse opportunities of your research data
For more information, see Data management plans.