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Graduate Student Research Support

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Sharing and Archiving Your Data

Data sharing involves depositing your data in an established data repository or archive to facilitate its accessibility to the broader research community and its long-term preservation.  Sharing your data in a data repository makes it discoverable, reusable, and citable by other researchers. Many funding agencies and journals now have data sharing policies that require researchers to make data, code, and supporting documentation publicly available. Choosing an established data repository will help meet these requirements and increase the visibility and impact of your research.   

When evaluating repositories, look for discipline- or datatype-specific repositories where available, or generalist repositories (such as Dryad, below) if no discipline-specific resource appropriate for your data exists.

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Dryad Digital Repository

The Dryad Data Repository is an open and curated data sharing platform for researchers to share and publish their data. Dryad is free for UCI affiliatesEach dataset goes through a curation process during submission to check for FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability).

Key features of Dryad include:

  • Publish dataset an independent dataset or as part of a journal submission
  • Link data with related articles, code, and other datasets
  • Permanent data citations with a DataCite DOI for attribution
  • Preservation in Core Trust Seal certified Merritt repository
  • Standardized views, downloads, and citation metrics in accordance with Make Data Count
  • Research data from any discipline is accepted
  • Datasets must be complete (no in-progress data) and in a re-usable form
  • 300 GB max per data publication
  • All data published under CC0 license 

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