Cheat Sheet on Publishing Research Data
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This research data management (RDM) cheat sheet on Publishing Research Data is part of a series of RDM cheat sheets published by the RDM Network at the University of Basel that provide a quick reference guide for best practices in handling research data. This document is aimed primarily at members of the University of Basel. It is a revised version of a cheat sheet on the same topic published in 2019, with updated content and design. Key contributors to the content revision were: Tamara Ackermann, Christina Besmer, Fabian Felder, Stephanie Heinrich and Iris Lindenmann. Cédric Delay did the layout. The original version was mainly created by Sofia Georgakopoulou.
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Research Data Management Network Research Data Management Network Publishing Research Data Alongside publishing your research fi ndings, it is considered good practice – and often a requirement – to make the data that support your fi ndings available to the research community. This promotes reproducibility of your fi ndings and enables the reuse of your data in future research. Before sharing your data, ensure you are allowed to! Beware of legal and ethical restrictions, especially for personal or other sensitive data. To publish your data, follow the FAIR principles and use a suitable repository that allows you to add proper documentation and metadata. When selecting a repository, check the requirements of your research funding organization. Many require data publication in accordance with FAIR principles and the use of noncommercial repositories. Recommended repositories Subject-specifi c repositories: • DaSCH – Swiss National Data and Service Centre for the Humanities • SWISSUbase, especially for social sciences and linguistics Interdisciplinary repositories: • Zenodo is a research data repository created, hosted and operated by CERN and OpenAIRE. • Dryad is a research data repository, originally funded by the National Science Foundation U.S., governed by a nonprofi t membership organization. Institutional repositories: The University of Basel does not provide an institutional repository and recommends using existing subject-specifi c or general repositories. If collaborating with other universities, you might have the option to publish data through their repositories. Repository registries: • The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) provides a list of generalist, discipline-specifi c and institutional data repositories. • The Open Access Directory provides a list of repositories for open data of various disciplines. • Deposition Databases by Elixir, provides a list of repositories for biomolecular data. • Find more repositories via re3data: a registry of research data repositories. https://researchdata.unibas.ch • This work is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. • [email protected] Illustration by [email protected], modifi ed