The Data Management Workbook
"The Data Management Workbook" will be published in December 2025. It is available from Pelagic Publishing and Amazon.
Description:
If you want to manage your research data better but don’t know where to begin, this short workbook will help you get started!
The Data Management Workbook helps researchers design useful data-management plans through a step-by-step series of structured exercises, worksheets and checklists, including:
- creating a data dictionary
- evaluating a lab notebook
- finding the best way to organize your files
- setting up useful file naming conventions
- writing effective README.txt files
- selecting the right data repository
- determining data stewardship
- preparing data for future use
Suitable for researchers working in many different disciplines, this guide also shows how to customize data-management plans to better fit your individual workflows, methodologies, laboratories and datasets. Author Kristin Briney builds on the foundations in her previous book, Data Management for Researchers, to help bridge the gap between understanding the principles and being able to implement data management as part of your research practice.
Managing Data for Patron Privacy
"Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries" was published in June 2022. It is available from ALA and Amazon.
Here's what people are saying:
- “Kristin Briney and Becky Yoose have written an essential book that serves as a call to action, urging library workers to think critically about what we deem “patron data” and how and why we as library workers manage patron data… If you seek a book that challenges your idea of patron data and your position in managing it while offering real-world, applicable examples as a guide, Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries is a must read.” — Jasmine Shumaker, College & Research Libraries
- "The most interesting part of Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries is how the book exposes tensions between the architecture of our library systems and the ethic of privacy that the information professions emphasize. Authors Kristin Briney and Becky Yoose use their book to offer practical consideration for managing personally identifiable information in libraries." — Levi Dolan, Journal of eScience Librarianship
Data Management for Researchers
"Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success" was published in September 2015. It is available from Pelagic Publishing and Amazon.
Here's what people are saying:
- "[I] intend to give a copy of this book to each graduate student / trainee that joins my lab" — Christie Bahlai, Practical Data Management for Bug Counters
- "Kristin Briney’s Data Management for Researchers: Organize, maintain and share your data for research success is a book that should be on the shelf (physical or virtual) of every librarian, researcher and research administrator. Scientists, engineers, social scientists, humanists — anyone who’s work involves generating and keeping track of digital data. This is the book for you." — John Dupuis, Confessions of a Science Librarian
- "An excellent practical treatise on the art and practice of data management, this book is essential to any researcher, regardless of subject or discipline." — Robert Buntrock, Chemical Information Bulletin
- "The book is clear to read and well-presented and written and provides an excellent introduction to data management for researchers." — Gareth Cole, ARIADNE
- "I cannot recommend this slender, seemingly innocent looking book enough — it will literally change how you think about data management." — CBatt
- "This practical handbook can help bring new researchers quickly up-to-speed on the topic, as well as serve as a reference to meet specific data management needs they encounter throughout the data life cycle." — Enid Karr, Journal of eScience Librarianship
- "Author Kristin Briney addresses the many issues in research data management for academics in an accessible format that's easy to follow." — Kristen LaBonte, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
- "This concise book, Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success, offers sound advice on all aspects of data management, in an accessible style." — Andrew Cox, Multimedia Information & Technology
- "Briney takes the reader through a pragmatic and sensible route through the activities of data management." — David Bawden, Alexandria