As mentioned earlier, there may be data repositories suitable for the data that your project will produce. To find such repositories, you may wish to consult Databib - a growing list of repositories for research data primarily in the sciences and social sciences. Data sets stored in a disciplinary repository have some advantages, including a greater likelihood of discovery by other researchers. Another benefit to researchers in having your data made available in a repository is that it is more widely accessible and citable. Andrew Stephenson attests to the advantages of data repositories in the following video.
Examples of disciplinary data repositories:
- Dryad - for data sets in the applied biological sciences that are linked to published articles
- ChemxSeer - for chemistry data sets
- ESA (Ecological Society of America) Data Registry - for data sets in ecology
- ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) - for social sciences data
- IEDA (Integrated Earth Data Applications) - for “observational solid earth data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences”
For help in selecting the appropriate data repository for your data, consult the Libraries’ Data Management mailing list, l-data-mgmt@lists.psu.edu.