Building networks to strengthen research data management advocacy and training

University College London (UCL) is a research-intensive university with 380 research departments, units, institutes and centres that are home to 12,000 research staff and research students. The university has been at the forefront of delivering open access to research publications through Discovery, the institutional publications repository. In August 2013 the Research Data Executive Services Group published a Research Data Policy outlining the responsibilities of research staff and students and describing the variety of institutional services that are available to support Research Data Management (RDM). UCL’s Research Data Policy is supported by two Research Data Support Offi cers (RDSOs) who work as part of the Liaison and Support Services within UCL Library Services and work on a regular basis with the Research Data Service based in Research IT Services and a number of other central services. This article will briefl y describe how the RDSOs have developed links with other services in order to improve awareness of RDM services