Repositories
“Sharing is caring” – this also applies to research data.
Data is not only valuable for your own research, but can also provide important insights and inspiration for other questions after the initial project has been completed.
Publishing data in a repository makes your research work transparent, increases the visibility and reputation of your own research and enables reuse your data.
Published research data are considered independent publications and can be cited.
FAIR Principles
The FAIR principles are intended to ensure sustainable research data management (RDM) by preparing and storing data and metadata in such a way that they can be reused by others – to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable.
- Data becomes comprehensible and reusable for others
- Recognition for your own research through data citation
- Comparison of research results and making meta-analyses possible
- Simplification of interdisciplinary research
How to publish data properly
Research data can safely be stored and retrieved in online data repositories for a longer time.
- University repository: DuEPublico
- Specialist repositories: Many research communities already have established subject-specific services. Search: re3data
- Generic repositories: e.g. Zenodo, RADAR, Figshare
- Data Journals: Focus on documentation and methodology of data generation
- Specialist journals: as supplements to published texts