• General Repositories
• Federal Government Repositories
• Repositories by Disciplines
• Qualitative Data Repositories
• Data Organizations

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

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

"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