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Current Trends in Research Data Management

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This article presents an analysis of policies, guidelines and requirements set by governments of a number of countries in the field of data openness, grantors, and publishers, as well as a review of publications, which allows tracing the main trends in research data management, and the Guide to Research Data Management, which reflects the basic concepts and features of preparing a data management plan, metadata standards, data identifiers, etc. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop service management and create institutional and national research data management services.

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  1. FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable): Findable, easy searching for specific data sets; Accessible, easy access (according to access conditions and storage options for a long period of time; Interoperable (interoperability), compatibility with other datasets or software; and Re-usable, multiple (re)use in further research.

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Redkina, N.S. Current Trends in Research Data Management. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 46, 53–58 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688219020035

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