November-December 2019 ISSN: 0193-4120 Page No. 3114- 3120 3114 Published by: The Mattingley Publishing Co., Inc. A Preliminary Examination on the Development of Research Data Management (RDM) Policy Suhaimi Napis 1 , Valerie Anak Michael 2 , Yusmadi Yah Jusoh 3 , Rusli Abdullah 3 , Fatimah Sidi 3 , Iskandar Ishak 3 , Mohammad Hamiruce Marhaban 4 , Yusnita Tugiran 5 1 Faculty Biotechnology and Bimolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2 Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia 3 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia 4 Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 5 Research Management Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia (suhaimi@upm.edu.my, valerie19mic@yahoo.com.my, yusmadi@upm.edu.my, rusli@upm.edu.my, fatimah@upm.edu.my, iskandar_i@upm.edu.my, mhm@upm.edu.my, yusnita@upm.edu.my) Article Info Volume 81 Page Number: 3114- 3120 Publication Issue: November-December 2019 Article History Article Received: 5 March 2019 Revised: 18 May 2019 Accepted: 24 September 2019 Publication: 14 December 2019 Abstract: Data sharing is an important pre-requisite towards enhancing knowledge in science and technology in recent years. The need to systematically collect, collate and manage research data will further facilitate knowledge archiving for future reference and re-use.This paper describes the development of a policy framework for data repository in one of Malaysian public university with a focus onthe awareness of data sharing among researchers. Questionnaires were distributed to 164 respondents focusing on the benefit of data sharing, lack of data sharing requirement and types of data to be included in data repository management. From the finding, the respondents are willing to share and provide data to the other researchers provided there is a proper policy document. This research also discusses the recommended guidelines for the data repository policyand also on howto promote data sharing among researchers. Keywords: Data sharing, policy and governance, data repository, Research Data Management (RDM) 1. INTRODUCTION Generally, in the university surrounding, there are diversity of data and information has been contributed and practices by the researchers for the purpose of research project. The purpose of this research is to propose a policy of data repository in one of the public university. The purpose is to study the awareness ofdata sharing among the researcher. Basically, the data is specialized in statistics, numbers of digital images, sound recordings, musical scores, transcripts of interviews, computer source code, simulations, survey data and classified work observation with proper notes. In addition, the researcher usually stored their data in hard disk, email and Cloud storage which are provided by Google and Amazon. Once the researcher wants to share their data, they usually exchange data through email and shuffle the data among the project teammate. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW The accessibility of research data has a huge prospective for scientific evolvement. Based on The University of Salford (2019) stated that research data are involved in quantitative information or qualitative data collected by researchers where the researcher work included experimentation, observation, interview or other techniques. According to ICSSR Data Service: Indian Social Science Data Repository, India (2015) had listed