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Despite these advantages, extant literature reveals that researchers often struggle to manage their research data. In this article, we investigate the relation between research data management practices and collaboration in a context that was made to spark or intensify collaboration\u2014a European Universities alliance. We conducted 39 semi-structured interviews addressing the whole research data lifecycle predominantly with researchers, but also support staff, from six universities that were or were shortly to become part of a European Universities alliance. Our findings show that researchers\u2019 practices affect their collaboration in various ways. For example, we find that sharing data within research teams constitutes an obstacle to collaboration due to international differences and technical impediments. Publishing data openly is also associated with certain reservations, such as a lack of knowledge. 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