The Research Data Store (RDS) provides a central location to securely store research data. For access, create a project with Research Data Storage in Researcher Dashboard (DashR).
To access RDS from off-campus locations, please connect to the University VPN before following the instructions below. |
Refer to the following guides for information on mapping RDS as a network drive:
In the following instructions, please replace <Project Short Code> by the short code for your project and <unikey> with your unikey. Replace the angle brackets too.
You can access the RDS by selecting "map network drive" and using the following network path:
\\shared.sydney.edu.au\research-data |
or you can map an individual project by using
\\shared.sydney.edu.au\research-data\PRJ-<Project Short Code> |
Please select 'Connect using different credentials' and when asked, enter shared\<unikey>
for the user name.
On MacOS, you can access your research-data network drive by opening the Finder application, then clicking Go → Connect to Server and entering
smb://shared\<unikey>@shared.sydney.edu.au/research-data/ |
or you can map an individual project by using
smb://shared\<unikey>@shared.sydney.edu.au/research-data/PRJ-<Project Short Code> |
If your project has Artemis HPC access, you can access RDS project data on login nodes and data transfer nodes in the /rds directory. You may also access your data via a SFTP server. For information about SFTP access, refer to the SFTP access to the Research Data Store guide.
Project data is accessible via SFTP in addition to the above access method. For information on this access method, refer to the SFTP access to the Research Data Store guide.
RDS is one of many research data storage platforms offered by the University. For more information about other research data storage platforms, visit https://sydney.edu.au/research-data-platforms. For information about data security classification, visit the security classification of research data page of the Services Portal.