Depending on specific funder / journal requirements you may find that you are obligated to deposit your datasets to a publicly accessible data repository at the time of publication. Make sure to review any such requirements at the beginning of your research project to ensure that you are able to comply with them in a timely manner. |
If your funder / journal doesn't specify a repository for you to use you'll have to choose one yourself. Some features and functionality to consider carefully include:
For the most part these are open access, but some datasets deposited in these repositories may have some form of access restriction. Most will have been made available for re-use by means of a Creative Commons or similar licence.
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The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is a multidisciplinary, bilingual data repository that is freely available to researchers working at any Canadian institution eligible for funding from the Tri-Agencies - which includes Douglas College.
What you need to know about FRDR:
Borealis is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada.
What you need to know about Borealis:
Canadian researchers are not obligated to deposit their research data in one of the Canadian national repositories. Depending on the context, it may be more appropriate to deposit in a discipline-specific repository. The following sites have curated lists of data repositories from around the world: |
re3data - aka, Registry of Research Data Repositories, "is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines." You can search by name or browse by subject, content-type or country.
Repository Finder - focusses on the "Earth, space and environment sciences community.... The tool is hosted by DataCite and queries the re3data registry of research data repositories."
FAIRSharing - "A registry of knowledge-bases and repositories of data and other digital assets." You can search by organization, domain, country and/or subject.
PLOS recommended repositories - from PLOS ONE - provides links to recommended repositories by discipline. Includes cross-disciplinary options as well.
The NIH provides information and links to a number of data repositories - both for generalist/multidisciplinary repositories as well as NIH-supported scientific repositories.
Nature has a great Data Repository Guidance page that includes a curated list of science data repositories, including health sciences, material sciences and the social sciences.
OAD (Open Access Directory) Data Repositories - from Simmons University, provides a "list of repositories and databases for open data."