Managing Your Data

Find a data repository that best showcases your work. 

There are many options for sharing your data. Sharing data in a data repository has many benefits - most of all, it turns over the burden of managing the integrity of your data over to professionals!

Data repositories exist in a variety of states - from openly accepting data from any project (including null results), to only accepting data from affiliated projects, to being totally closed and no longer accepting data. 

Questions to think about:

• What data repository is standard in your lab, your field, or your discipline?
• Do you work with datasets in which you need to restrict access? This includes datasets with personally identifiable information (PII), confidential information, sensitive information, or protected information. 
• If you worked with human subjects, did you receive participants’ consent to share the data? 
• What requirements does your selected repository have?
  • File formats, size limits, or scope of your data may all affect what you can upload.
• What resources are necessary to share your data with your selected repository?
  • Do you need to secure additional funding to pay for any deposit charges?
  • Do you need to secure a staff member to prepare your data for deposit?

Find your data repository. 

Use our form, below, or develop your own!