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The Sustainable Digital Scholarship (SDS) service is one of the Bodleian Libraries’ research data management services, available to researchers at all career stages and across all disciplines at the University of Oxford.

We can help you store, publish and sustain your research data outputs with confidence, enhancing world-class research and maximising its visibility, reuse and impact.

We provide expert advice and practical guidance on digital sustainability, alongside a robust solution for the storage, publication and stewardship of research data through the Sustainable Digital Scholarship (SDS) platform: an online, open access repository.

Our aim is to ensure your data remains findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), meets funder requirements, and continues to deliver impact beyond the life of your project.

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Science Gossip

Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries

Feeding Anglo-Saxon England (FeedSax)

The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution

RISE: Research on Improving Systems of Education programme

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Child Policy during COVID-19 Database

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TEXTCOURT

Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theatre, ca. 1600-1800

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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

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Prismatic Jane Eyre

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Online language documentation for Biak and Dusner

Preserving the endangered languages of Papua & Austronesia

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Victorian Professions

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Sex and the Church

Documenting Christianity's relationship with sexuality over time

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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

Preserving a key resource on the history of early Christianity

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The Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale

Resurrecting Research

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Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories

Publishing a revolutionary collection of historical interviews

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Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

Oxford University Gazette

Preserving the University of Oxford's journal of record

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Oxford Facsimiles of Herculaneum Papyri

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Sphakia Survey

Human activity in a remote and rugged part of Crete, 3000 BC - AD 1900

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