LibGuides: Research Data Management: Dataset Deposit

Discipline-specific Data Repositories

You may deposit your datasets in discipline-specific data repositories. You may find an appropriate one at Re3data.org that provides information on more than 2,000 repositories. The University of Minnesota Libraries also recommends some of the popular discipline-specific repositories by subject areas. SpringerNature's Data Policies require authors to submit datasets to its recommended repositories. You may access the list of recommended repositories here for different research fields. You may also find another list of Domain-Specific Data Repositories from Stanford University Libraries.

Below is the summary of the data repositories in different research areas adapted from the Library of Harvard University.

**List of Repositories**
Repository	Research Area
Dryad	Biological sciences, basic and applied; a repository for datasets associated with published articles
GenBank	The NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences
ICPSR	Social sciences data
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)	Climatic, geophysical and oceanographic data
National Snow and Ice Data Center	Earth's frozen regions and their role in global climate
Open Context	Archeological data
Protein Data Bank	Worldwide repository of information about the 3D structures of large biological molecules
QDR: Qualitative Data Repository	Social sciences data
tDAR	The Digital Archeological Record
UK Data Service	Social, economic and population data
US Virtual Astronomical Observatory	Virtual Observatory

Grant agencies like National Science Foundation (NSF) demands a compulsory data deposit policy. Some funders require data to be deposited in specific data centers like ESRC and NERC. Advice should be sought from funders or grant agencies for the accessibility of datasets to fulfill their specific requirement.

When you choose an appropriate data repository, you may consider whether your publishers and collaborators have any requirements for data deposit.

General-purpose Data Repositories

Mendeley Data is the University of Manchester's recommended general-purpose research data repository where no discipline-specific solution is available. Figshare is a general-purpose data repository which allow researchers to freely deposit up to 20 GB (single file size limit of 5 GB) of data and request a DOI for citing the dataset. Zenodo is another choice of general-purpose data repository.

Deposit your Software

Some repository solutions include additional features for the hosting of computer code. That can assist you in managing the source code during the development process: