Sharing research data can be seen as beneficial in a number of ways:
- Impact & longevity: Your data may be cited by others. Open publications and data receive more citations, over longer periods
- Compliance: Funders, publishers and institutions may require that you share your data
- Transparency & quality: Your findings can be replicated and compared with other studies
- Collaboration: Creates opportunities for follow on research and collaboration
- Re-use: Your data can be used in novel ways. Data sharing facilitates re-use of your data for future / follow-on research and discovery as data collection can be funded / collected once, and used many times for a variety of purposes
- Efficiency: Data sharing is good research practice!
UCD Research Data Zenodo Community
The Research Data Zenodo Community for University College Dublin (UCD) is intended to be used forpublishing research data created by researchers affiliated with UCD. UCD's Research Data Zenodo Community is managed by UCD Library.
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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
UCD are now members of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), which is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. If you are interested in Depositing your data with DRI please contact UCD Library.
Re3data.org
This is the primary resource for locating a domain or discipline specific data repository.
Search by specific research discipline and then filter by access categories, data usage licenses, whether the repository gives the data a persistent identifier etc. Re3data uses a series of symbols to indicate these key services.
To be registered in re3data.org a research data repository must:
- be run by a legal entity, such as a sustainable institution (e.g. library, university)
- clarify access conditions to the data and repository as well as the terms of use
- have a focus on research data
Finding a multidisciplinary repository
If there is no disciplinary-specific repository in your area select a general purpose repository. These can handle a variety of different data types. Charges may apply but can be included in a funding application. Key general repositories are listed below. This list is for information purposes only and is not exhaustive.