Funding bodies and publishers are increasingly requiring聽data deposit (i.e. publishing) of research results alongside publication. Making data accessible in a trusted data repository has the following advantages, it: allows others to verify your research; encourages others to cite your research; can lead to new contacts from potential collaborators, funders, and other interested parties; provides a securely-stored, authoritative copy of your data; and may be found by another research who can then use it聽in other research. Ultimately, making your data available to other researchers and/or the public is good for society,聽academia and future research (see a more comprehensive ).
Research data-even sensitive and confidential data-can be deposited ethically and legally if researchers take time to:
- include聽provision for data deposit聽when gaining informed consent;
- protect聽personal, sensitive or confidential information via anonymization;
- consider聽controlling access to data or adding embargoes; and
- apply聽an appropriate license (see the ).
Many repositories offer聽embargo periods where the data is kept private until you are ready for its release.
Funders with data archiving policies聽
- See the 平特五不中 Digital Research Services (DRS) page on data deposit requirements by funder.
- International list of funding agencies policies on data聽deposit:
- US funding agencies policies on data聽sharing:聽
Depositing research data 聽
平特五不中 faculty, students, and staff are welcome to deposit datasets in the collection. All data are stored securely on servers located in Canada. Data can be publicly accessible, available to specific individuals, or private/restricted.聽
A wide variety of additional data repositories and databases are available聽that聽archive聽research data from many subject areas.聽Coverage varies by discipline. 听听
平特五不中 researchers who wish to look for a domain-specific data repository聽are encouraged to聽start by using聽聽which provides a comprehensive listings of disciplinary and institutional repositories to host and share research data. 聽
Other places to find lists of data repositories include:聽
- Nature -聽
- Open Access Directory (OAD) -聽
- PLOS One -聽
- Email the聽data.library [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Data%20Sharing%20Question) (R)alisa.rod [at] mcgill.ca (esearch Data Management Specialist). We can advise you on reputable repositories in your field.聽
The following聽list names a few, reputable general data repositories:
- 聽- a general purpose repository often used in partnership聽with PLOS聽publications.
- 聽- frequently used for scientific and medical publication
- 聽- a US-based repository commonly used for social sciences data
- - The Federated Research Data Repository is a Canadian solution for archiving projects involving large amounts of data or big data聽
