Online data repositories
One essential part of data management practices entails the curation and long-term preservation of data.
This phase usually coincides with the practices of making data available to other researchers or interested users.
The guiding principle is "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
Research data repositories
Online repositories are platforms or databases where digital content is stored and made accessible to the public or a specific community. They play a crucial role in preserving and providing access to digital resources, ensuring long-term availability, and promoting open access to research.
A list of online repositories can be found below, and in the quicklink.
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Registry of Research Data Repositories
An extensive and curated list of generalist and discipline-specific online repositories is available at the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data).
re3data is an open science tool that offers researchers, funding organizations, libraries, and publishers an overview of existing international repositories for research data. In 2023, the registry lists over 3'000 research data repositories from around the world covering all academic disciplines.
By browsing the collection, researchers may find a suitable repository where to preserve their research data and find data collections deposited by other researchers.
Each data repository offers options regarding metadata documentation and standards, creative common licenses, restricted access to data collections, assignment of Persistent Identifiers (PIs) and other features. -
Examples of multidisciplinary repositories
Zenodo is a research data repository created, hosted and operated by CERN and OpenAIRE. It’s built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science.
Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data.
Harvard Dataverse is on open-source web application developed by the Institute fro Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University.
EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) is a collaborative initiative aimed at providing researchers and organizations in Europe to manage, store, share, and preserve research data.
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Examples of domain-specific repositories
dbGaP (database of Genotypes and Phenotypes) was developed to archive and distribute the data and results from studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype in Humans.
IRIS (Instruments and data for Research In language Studies) is a free, searchable, up- and downloadable collection of datasets, instruments, materials, stimuli and analysis tools used for research into languages, signed language learning, multilingualism, language education, language use, and language processing.
The Harvard Dataverse includes the world's largest collection of social science research data. It is hosting data for projects, archives, researchers, journals, organizations, and institutions.
EMDB (Electron Microscopy Data Bank) is a public repository for cryogenic-sample Electron Microscopy (cryoEM) volumes and representative tomograms of macromolecular complexes and subcellular structures. It covers a variety of techniques, including single-particle analysis, helical reconstruction, electron tomography, subtomogram averaging, and electron crystallography.
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Swiss repositories
DaSCH is providing platform for researchers who want to publish their research data and for those who want to re-use research data. Since 2021, DaSCH has operated as a national research data infrastructure primarily funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
SWISSUbase is a national, cross-disciplinary research data service dedicated to social sciences that provides a free and FAIR-compliant platform as well as services for the archiving, publishing and dissemination of your research data and metadata
