Data Repositories

A repository is a tool to share, preserve, and discover research outputs, including but not limited to data or datasets. While workflows and processes will vary across repositories, generally speaking, researchers submit and describe their own data which is then ingested into the repository for storage. Other researchers can then download - or request to download - the data directly from the repository.

Why put data in a repository? 

• Comply with funder requirements
• Long-term, safe, managed storage and backup
• Make your data findable and accessible to others, contributing to a culture of open scholarship, sharing, and reproducibility. Share "like with like" when possible. 
• Ease of collaboration with others
• Receive a persistent identifier (DOI) for your data