Research Data Curation Program

The suite of data curation tools and services made available through the Library and the Research Data Curation Program includes, among other things:

  • Assistance creating a Data Management Plan (required by many grant proposals)
  • Deposit of datasets into a curated, open repository – the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections – to disseminate your research and increase its impact
  • Consultation on proper metadata tagging and preparing data to be shared
  • Services for obtaining permanent identifiers for data
  • Long-term, secure preservation of archival data

Visit their website to learn more about data management, sharing and discovery, digital preservation, and the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, or contact research-it@ucsd.edu for additional information.


For general information or to request services, contact research-it@ucsd.edu