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About the Birkbeck Data Repository

Birkbeck is one of the world's leading research-intensive institutions. The College has a commitment to manage our research data, and this repository is part of that commitment.

BiRD is a pilot service, run by the library. It allows all researchers at Birkbeck to upload data, and get a DOI.

For further information on how we manage our data, please contact researchdata@bbk.ac.uk

Our Data

Data in the Birkbeck Data Repository is stored on our Arkivum server.

This is a very secure storage space, which will allow our data to remain unchanged and accessible for many years after it is deposited.

School of Arts

Innovative and interdisciplinary research across a wide area of the arts and humanities

The School of Arts includes many research centers, groups and networks. In Art and Design, and English language and literature, the school achieved 100% in the last REF for a research environment conducive to producing research of the highest quality.

School of Business, Economics, and Informatics

The pursuit of innovative research lies at the heart of our activities

The School of Business, Economics, and Informatics provide cutting-edge research on topics of contemporary interest to business organizations and public sector institutions.

School of Law

Committed to the critical study of law and institutions of justice

The Times Higher Education 2014 Research Intensity ranking put the School of Law at Birkbeck among the top 10 Law Schools in the UK and a top 3 research institution in London. Our research environment was judged as conducive to producing research of the highest quality.

School of Science

Staff are engaged in an array of ground-breaking, world-class research

The School of Science has a world leading Science Faculty with Psychological Sciences rated 5th nationally, Earth and Planetary Sciences rated 6th and Biological Sciences rated 11th (the last two being joint submissions with UCL) in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

School of Social Sciences, History, and Philosophy

Our School is at the forefront of research in the humanities and social sciences

The School's research spans a large variety of fields, and is notable for its collaborative, interdisciplinary and innovative nature. In all departments there is a particular focus on issues of social justice, on pressing questions of ethics and politics, and on making academic research important to the wider community.

The Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics

The institute was founded to develop interdisciplinary research in Data Analytics and Data Science.

BIDA is based in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. It provides the focus and a platform for research that combines data from computing and pervasive technologies with domain-specific data.