The funder Jisc supported 27 british universities to establish or improve their research data manangement (RDM) services in 2011–2013. The comprehensive materials and tools by the Digital Curation Center (DDC), which handle the entire life cycle of the data, offered orientation. The structure of this article also follows this cycle to describe the state-of-the-art RDM as it was realized by six Jisc projects that will be focussed on. The aim of this analysis was to elicit from these examples which tasks are undertaken by libraries. Primarily, this are the overall management of RDM Services and the implementation of training. Repositories and metadata are also mostly curated here, while these tasks are often located at the IT services, as well as the project management and requirements analysis. The policy development is one more important task of the library, frequently held in cooperation with the research services, which are almost always in charge of data management planning (DMP).