RDM Resources

RDM Planning Checklists 

Alongside your existing data management plan and other grant application materials, checklists can be valuable tools for structuring meeting agendas as you guide your team through the planning process. Here are sample checklists for each phase of the research cycle. You can adapt or expand these checklists as needed and use them in planning meetings to help your team address key data management decisions at every stage of your research project.

Education Data Repository 

Education data repositories serve as centralized sources of high-quality, standardized data that are essential for both data managers and researchers. For data managers, these repositories ensure consistent data governance, documentation, and access protocols, making it easier to maintain data accuracy, security, and compliance with institutional and funding requirements. For researchers, they provide reliable, large-scale datasets that support evidence-based analysis, cross-institutional comparisons, and longitudinal studies.

The value of these repositories lies in their ability to reduce duplication of effort, accelerate research workflows, and enhance collaboration across institutions. By offering well-documented, curated datasets, they also promote data transparency, reproducibility, and open science practices, which are increasingly prioritized by funding agencies and journals.

For Stanford researchers, use SDR services to preserve and make publicly available the products of your work. Scholars around the world use content in the SDR in their research.

You can search the re3data global registry of research data repositories to find appropriate academic discipline repositories.

We have also created a resource to compare and contrast several of the general data repositories and education-related repositories currently available for education researchers. Detailed feature descriptions of each platform are available here.