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 [1] - 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:
For help in selecting the appropriate data repository for your data, consult the Libraries’ Data Management mailing list, l-data-mgmt@lists.psu.edu [8].
Links
[1] http://databib.org/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQKzU8mj6U
[3] http://datadryad.org/
[4] http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/
[5] http://data.esa.org/esa/style/skins/esa/index.jsp
[6] http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp
[7] http://www.iedadata.org/
[8] mailto:l-data-mgmt@lists.psu.edu