Research Data Management: Data Repositories & Preservation

ScholarSpace, https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/, is an institutional repository for UH Manoa research papers, videos, datasets, and instructional materials.

ScholarSpace provides long-term preservation of digital files.

ScholarSpace can provide permanent access to data or act as a secure storage space until data are moved to a domain-specific or other generalist data repository.

When researchers cannot locate a repository for their discipline or the type of data they have, a generalist repository can be a good place to share data. Generalist repositories accept data regardless of data type, format, content, or disciplines. The following options, not exhaustive, for generalist data repositories are available:

• Harvard Dataverse
• Dryad Data Repository
• Figshare
• IEEE Dataport
• Mendeley Data
• Open Science Framework
• Zenodo

The Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) has a current list of data repositories, searchable by keyword or by browsing. The Open Access Directory also has a list of data repositories available.

See below for a handful of discipline-specific data repositories to view as examples of the range of functionality of the interfaces:

• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
• GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
• fMRIDC https://www.nitrc.org/projects/fmridatacenter/ (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Global Ocean Observing System http://www.ioc-goos.org/
• ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ (University of Michigan hosted social sciences data)
• Protein Data Bank http://www.pdb.org/pdb/home/home.do
• National Virtual Observatory http://www.virtualobservatory.org/ (part of International Virtual Observatory, a portal to distributed datasets)
• NASA National Space Science Data Center http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/