Abstract:

Research data management policy of Australian universities was built early and developed well as a system. In this paper, we use the methods of literature review and content analysis to analyze the research data preservation policies of 22 Australian universities specially and profoundly. We choose 7 dimensions as data preparation prior data preservation, data retention period, data location, data transfer, data format, data backup and data disposal to analyze the research data preservation policies in Australian universities comprehensively, and wish to make some suggestions for domestic research data preservation.

Key words: Australian universities, Research data management policy, Research data preservation policies