UofL Libraries: Data Management: Data Repositories

Data Repositories

Data repositories exist to store, preserve, and provide access to your research data. Some data repositories have specific requirements before deposit, which can include:

Subject specificity
Open access permissions including re-use of data
Metadata

Be sure to check the policies and/or terms of service of a data repository regarding terms of access and data re-use before constructing your own permissions for your data set(s).

General Repositories

Dryad
A curated and robust multi-disciplinary repository. Deposits typically cost $150 per dataset.
Figshare
Free for researchers to use and allows uploads up to 20GB.
Mendeley Data
Open Science Framework
A free open repositories for any kind of data.

Disciplinary Data Repositories
Area/Subject	Example Repository/Archive
Social Sciences	ICPSR
Geography	GeoCommons
Business	World Bank Group Finances
Justice Administration	National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Multidisciplinary	data.gov
History	History Data Service
Literature	Oxford Text Archive
Medicine	NIH Data Sharing Repositories

re3data: Registry of Research Data Repositories
NSF recommended repository registry and search service.
Simmons College Open Data Directory
Wiki of repositories and databases for Open Data.

Resources

Further resources to find general & subject-specific data repositories.

NIH guide for locating generalist repositories.
NIH encourages the use of domain-specific repositories where possible. NIH guide for locating generalist repositories.
DataCite
Provider of persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data.
Digging into Data
List of repositories of digital materials with contact and technical support information.
OpenDOAR
Directory of academic open access repositories.
Recommended Informed Consent Language for Data Sharing

Data Management

Data Repositories

General Repositories

Disciplinary Data Repositories

Resources