The Council approved the Policy on Research Data Management on the 8th of December 2022. This Policy rightfully advocates for the management of research data, which includes storage in institutionally approved POPIA platform.
LIS will institute the possibility of using a storage platform whose applicability has already been confirmed by other higher education libraries, FigShare.
The LIS would like to recommend, as a temporary measure, the use of SharePoint. It has been confirmed as having capabilities to store data in different formats and data can be embargoed as might be required, based on ethical clearance issues. The LIS will create a subdirectory for each research study with only access to the researcher and his/her supervisor.