McGraw-Page Library: Data Repositories: Data Repository

What is a data repository?

A data repository is a storage space for researchers to deposit data sets associated with their research. A repository can help you:

manage your data
preserve your data over time
facilitate discovery of your data
cite your data by a persistent identifier to increase citation rates

What is this guide for?

RMC does not have an institutional repository. This guide is aimed for providing open resources and help all RMC data users including Data Management Plan (DMP) users to identify relevant repositories for research data management.

How to select your repository?

"Data should be submitted to discipline-specific, community-recognized repositories where possible. Where a suitable discipline-specific resource does not exist, data should be submitted to a generalist repository."1 The following online directories maintain lists of data sources and repositories across a wide range of disciplines.

Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) global registry of research data repositories that covers repositories from different academic disciplines. As of 2015, it is a merged listing of re3data and DataBib, managed by DataCite.

FAIRsharing A cross-disciplinary platform that houses manually curated metadata on standards, databases and data policies. It is searchable and provides a list of certified data repositories.

Open Access Directory of Data Repositories Maintains lists of open access data repositories for a wide range of subject areas.

1 Nature.Scientific Data. (n.d.). Data Repository Guidance. https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories