Research & IT

Data storage and management Research & IT

We offer a wide range of services for different phases in the life cycle of your research data. Everything for the secure storage, management, sharing and reuse of data.

Portfolio data services: What service do you need to manage and store

We offer a wide range of services for different phases in the life cycle of your research data.

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Object Store: store large quantities of data

Object Store provides a general purpose online storage service that may be used for storing large quantities of data.

SURFdrive: Personal cloud storage service

Store, synchronise and share your documents easily with SURFdrive. SURFdrive is a personal cloudservice for the Dutch education and research.

Research Drive: securely and easily store and share research data

Research Drive is a cloud-based shared-storage environment specifically designed for large storage quotas. Learn more!

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Secure, long-term storage with Data Archive

The Data Archive is the centralised location for data archiving and (long-term) storage, even in volumes running into the petabytes.

SURF Data Repository

Have you completed your research and do you want to make the data available to others? SURF Data Repository offers long-term storage of large datasets

Data Persistent Identifier

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) ensure the findability of your data, now and always. Even if the location or underlying infrastructure changes.

iRODS Hosting enables carefree data management

Do you want to use iRODS to manage research data, but don't want to spend time, resources or hardware on managing the software? We can do it for you.

SURFsharekit: the online depot for higher education

Digitally and sustainably store your research publications, graduation products, and OERs and make them freely available via SURFsharekit.

Send large files securely and encrypted with SURFfilesender

Want to send and receive files quickly, securely and easily? With SURFfilesender, you can send large files, such as research data.

Consultancy on IT solutions for researchers

Our experts are happy to lend their expertise to support your research.

Training courses for research

Want to get started with our systems but lack the necessary knowledge? We regularly organize hands-on systems training.

Research data management support course

Looking for an introductory course to support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data? Enroll in the Essentials 4 Data Support course of Research Data Netherlands (RDNL).

Video: EUDAT services for managing research data

More experiences of fellow researchers

Saxion and Research Drive

Research groups within Saxion University of Applied Sciences can store and share large and small data sets using Research Drive.

Research support at universities of applied sciences

In this report, 5 universities of applied sciences show how they have organized this.

How do we deal with the explosion of research data?

How do we store everything carefully so that it remains accessible for reuse, even in the long term? The National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) facilitates a national approach to research data management.

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SURF and open science

Together with research institutions, SURF makes the IT and research infrastructures in the Netherlands suitable and inviting for open science.

International collaboration

We participate in various international projects in the field of open science and European access to IT services for research. Examples are EOSChub, FAIRsFAIR and EUDAT.

Science Mesh: European project for worldwide filesharing and more

Science Mesh aims to create a federated infrastructure of sync-and-share services (such as SURFdrive) hosted by various organisations world-wide.

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Data storage and management Research & IT

Which service do you need for your research?

Portfolio data services: What service do you need to manage and store

Object Store: store large quantities of data

SURFdrive: Personal cloud storage service

Research Drive: securely and easily store and share research data