Deposit & share data

Discipline-specific repositories

Discipline-specific or domain repositories accept datasets related to either a specific discipline (e.g., genomics) or a broad subject-area (e.g., social sciences). Some repositories allow for self-archival and will provide limited or no curation service; others, like ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), will provide in-depth curation services to subscribing institutions (Concordia is an ICPSR member) provided that the data fits within their collection development policy.

Search for a disciplinary data repository:

• re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories)
• PLoS ONE Recommended repositories (by discipline)
• Springer Nature Recommended repositories (by discipline)

Journal- or publisher-recommended repositories

Some journals are requiring that researchers make the data associated with their papers publicly available to facilitate verification and replication of results. These publishers may either recommend a data repository, and in some cases, require that authors deposit their data in a specific repository. Note that if there is a cost to depositing data, it may be covered either by the submitter or by the publisher.

Below are examples of publisher-recommended data repositories:

• Nature
• PLoS (including Criteria for recommended data repositories)