Research Guides: Zoology: Data Sources

Open Access Data Repositories

DataONE
An initiative funded by NSF to develop a repository for observational data in environmental science crossing discipline boundaries of ecology, oceanography, meteorology, water, etc.
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Search DataOne using One Mercury: A DataONE Search Tool for Scientific Data
Dryad
A curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
KNB is an international repository intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research. The data originate from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers.
NCBI GenBank
GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
BOLD Systems
The Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) Systems is designed to support the generation and application of DNA barcode data. The platform consists of four main modules: a data portal, a database of barcode clusters, an educational portal, and a data collection workbench.
FlyBase
A database focused on the vast genetic work done with Drosophila.

Data Management Plans

What is a Data Management Plan?

A brief document that outlines what you will do with your data during and after your research, to ensure your data will be safe, documented, and accessible now and in the future. -DAAC

Data Management Guides

DataOne Primer on Data Management (.pdf)
Best practices that will enable you to develop a data management plan, and effectively create, organize, manage, describe, preserve and share data.
Data Management for Data Providers
An overview of data management planning and preparation, and practical methods to successfully share and archive your data.

Zoology: Data Sources

Open Access Data Repositories

Data Management Plans

What is a Data Management Plan?

Data Management Guides

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