Research data management service is a new type of service that libraries will be faced on e-research environment. Research data management tools are the important guaranty for providing research data management service. Based on data management life cycle model and the different needs of data management，the paper presents a classification method for research data management tools ，they can be divided into the tools of data rocessing，the tools of data distribution and data publishing，the tools of dataanalysis and the tools of integrating data management. The paper also analyzes and recommends some typical data anagement tools
