Criteria
Here are some criteria to keep in mind when selecting a repository for your data:
- Does it provide persistent identifiers (e.g. DOIs) for deposited files?
- Does it provide curation for the data and metadata?
- Who can access the data, and how long will the data be preserved?
- What license(s) does it support?
- Is the repository integrated with other systems for finding, connecting data to articles, etc?
- Who manages the repository (government, for-profit publisher, academic, non-profit, other organization)?
- NIH also provides a guide to selecting a repository,
- Need assistance? Contact us and we’ll assist you.
Suggested Repositories
Where to start?
- Review the research solicitation or funding opportunity announcement to see if they require or suggest certain repositories.
- For NIH:
- also check the list of NIH-supported repositories for appropriate repositories.
- For NIH:
- If a repository specific to your data is NOT specified:
- Check the following lists of repositories, or contact us for assistance.
* The lists below are not all-inclusive
** Check with us or your program officer before selecting a repository from these lists:
- Check the following lists of repositories, or contact us for assistance.
- If there isn’t a discipline-specific repository for your research, we recommend using Iowa Research Online (IRO) (see IRO instructions) because:
- IRO meets funder requirements for repositories.
- Provides long term preservation and access.
- We curate all data deposited in IRO to create high-quality deposits that can be cited in and link to your publications, and are linked to your ORCID.
- We can reserve a DOI for a dataset so you can cite it in your manuscript.
- For sharing and preserving code or software, we recommend using Zenodo with Github, or depositing your code in IRO.