The University of Queensland has developed the UQ Research Data Manager (UQRDM) to provide researchers and higher degree by research students with a means to practise good stewardship of research data. The UQRDM also facilitates collaboration among researchers, both within UQ and other Australian and overseas institutions. External partners can access their project’s research data easily, using their own institutional credentials. In addition to research data storage, the system provides automatically generated and downloadable data management plans that researchers can use in grant, ethics and industry funding applications. The system will also close the loop between working data and managed data collections.