UR Data Hub

Are you currently working on a project proposal and need a data management plan? Would you like to use services to document and organise data for you and your team? Are you thinking about the best way to share, publish and store your data? We will be happy to advise you on these issues in a personal meeting, please get in touch with our team.

Our offers include:

• Support in the creation of data management plans
• Advice on optimal workflows with regard to data management
• Verification of compliance with research funding requirements
• Analysis of research data management needs - before, during and after the project
• Support for the planning of sensitive data
• Information on data storage and long-term preservation

At the University of Regensburg, the following digital services are currently available for your research data management:

Tool for creating structured data management plans: Link RDMO

Tool for documentation and quality assurance of research data

We currently offer eLabFTW (please contact elab@ur.de for information about using eLabFTW for your working group and for teaching) and chemotion (for chemistry).

Tool for versioning files: Link GitLab

You can publish your research data via the Publication Server of the University Regensburg. The publication server enables, among others, assignment to a DOI and secure long-term storage. Further information can be found here.

Do you have any suggestions for setting up further services or virtual environments or do you need an individual tool for organising your data within your project? Please feel free to contact us.

We offer you and your teams individual training courses and information events on topics related to research data management. Get in touch with us.

Why is research data management important and when should I start? This event provides an overview of the phases that research data goes through and of what is expected of a good research data management.

We offer introduction events on eLabFTW for you and your teams.

Do you have any questions about research data management at the University Regensburg, digital services, or training and events? Or would you like to arrange an appointment with us? Please get in touch with our team: datahub@ur.de.

Enquiries about the electronic lab notebook eLabFTW can be sent directly to elab@ur.de.

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In 2022, the University Regensburg has introduced a policy on research data management. This policy promotes the publication of research data in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

Guidelines at a glance:

• Regulations concerning the UR Data Hub at the University of Regensburg (PDF, in german)
• Guidelines of the University of Regensburg on handling research data (PDF, only accessible within the university, in german)
• Universität Regensburg Regulations for Ensuring Good Academic Practice (PDF)
• University of Regensburg's Open Access Policy (PDF, in german)

Management

Dr. Gernot Deinzer	University Library

Members (in alphabetical order)

Prof. Dr. Björn Brembs	Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine
Dr. Michael Hartung	Computer Centre
Prof. Dr. Burkhard König	Chemistry and Pharmacy
Dr. Peter Kreitmeier	Chemistry and Pharmacy
Constantin Lehenmeier	University Library
Prof. Dr. Julia Rehbein	Chemistry and Pharmacy
Dr. Sophie Stolzenberger	University Library
Dr. Rudolf Vasold	Chemistry and Pharmacy

Next Meeting Date

July 14th, 2025	2:30 p.m.

Members

Prof. Dr. Ernst Tamm	Vice President for Research and Support for Emerging Academics
Prof. Dr. Susanne Leist	Vice President for Digitalization, Networks and Transfer

Representatives of the faculties:

Dr. Dirk Gärtner	Catholic Theology
Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig	Law
Prof. Dr. Steffen Sebastian	Business, Economics, Management Inform. Systems
Dr. Diana Waldmannstetter	Medicine
Prof. Dr. Meike Klettke	Informatics and Data Science
Prof. Dr. Mark Spoerer	Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities
Dr. Wilhelm Malloni	Human Sciences
Prof. Dr. Mareike Schumacher	Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
PD Dr. Florian Strunk	Mathematics
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Bali	Physics
Prof. Dr. Till Rudack	Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine
Prof. Dr. Frank-Michael Matysik	Chemistry and Pharmacy

Representative of research associates

Dr. Tanja Auge

Members with advisory vote

Dr. Gernot Deinzer	Management of UR Data Hub
Dr. André Schüller-Zwierlein	Head of University Library
Dr. Christoph Bauer	Head of Computer Centre
Daniel Konadl	Project Office Digitalization
Dr. Annette Grohmann	Research Development
Susanne Stingl	Data Protection Officer
Elena Maria Kellinghaus	IT-Security Officer

The UR Data Hub is in exchange with other research data management institutions and networked on a regional and national level.

Networks

• Forschungsdatenmanagement Bayern

Associated Projects

• Digitale Langzeitverfügbarkeit im Bibliotheksverbund Bayern

"In principle, research data (...) are all data that are created and/or processed in a course of a scientific discovery process."*

* from "Guidelines of the University of Regensburg on handling research data" (see Guidelines and Orders)

When searching for research data or suitable repositories, also for publishing own research data, the following platforms can be useful:

• Publication Server of the University Regensburg (you can find more information about the UR Publication Server here)
• multidisciplinary repositories, e.g. zenodo
• re3data: directory of repositories, e.g. sorted by subject
• EUDAT CDI: directory of general and subject-specific repositories at european level

The UR publication server offers all researchers the possibility to publish both texts and research data. The latter include datasets, experimental descriptions, images, audio and video files, as well as software.

Research data on the publication server

• can be directly linked to the publications resulting from it,
• receive a DOI (digital object identifier) to make it permanently citable,
• are stored either freely accessible (open access) or access-protected,
• are archived for the long-term,
• can be assigned as a supplement in publisher publications, and
• comply with the Universität Regensburg Regulations for Ensuring Good Academic Pracitce (see Guidelines and Orders).

For help on publishing research data to the Publication Server, click here.

• forschungsdaten.info: information platform on research data management
• Funding guidelines of research funders regarding research data management
• German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)