This comprehensive reference guide gives guidance on best practice information and data management.   It covers intellectual property issues such as the re-use of third party datasets and licensing of project outputs, ethical considerations, short-term data storage, options for long-term data deposit including domain-specific repositories, use of durable digital file formats, and creation of metadata to maximise discovery of project outputs. It also identifies and links to further data management resources.

The document was developed to support  climate change adaptation researchers funded under the Australian Commonwealth Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) Planning for Climate Change Fund to integrate best practice in climate change adaptation data and information management into their project activities. 

Good data and information management practices save time and ensure that important data and information will be available to the widest possible audience beyond the life of the project.