About Us

Our Department

Research Data Services (RDS) helps UCSB researchers manage and preserve their research data in a more effective and reproducible way through:

  • Consultations
  • Long-term engagements
  • Instructional workshops

Our team offers support across the research data lifecycle, from pre-project planning to post-project archival, connecting researchers with both locally- and externally-provided resources, data management systems and curation services. Our goal is to ensure that all research data is well-described, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), as well as sustainable and preservable, and that researchers receive scholarly credit for sharing and publishing their data.

We recommend you explore the Research Computing and Data website (https://rcd.ucsb.edu) maintained by our department for campus-wide tools, recommendations, events, communities and learning resources.

Using this Resource

This workshop is licensed CC-BY. We welcome everyone to take advantage of this learning resource asynchronously at their own pace. We also encourage faculty to reuse or repurpose content to their research methods classes. If you’d like us to host a hands-on in-person or remote workshop for your team or schedule a consultation with us, email: .