It is possible to search for open data repositories through several service:
- re3data is the registry of research data repositories which provides documentation about existing repositories[1]
- OpenDOAR is a directory of Open Access Repositories[2]
Repository | Owner | Access | Country | Discipline | Data | Database License | Data Licenses | Year | Persistent Identifier system | Preservation | Uploads | Software | Compliance |
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Dryad | Non profit | Open | USA (California Digital Library / Dryad / National Science Foundation) | Generic | Data | CC0 | CC0 | 2018 | DOI | Open source | SNSF | ||
European Data Infrastructure (EUDAT) | Non profit | Open | Europe (B2FIND Communities / EUDAT / European Commission) | Generic | Data | DOI | SNSF | ||||||
Figshare | Commercial | Open | Company Digital Science | Generic | Data | 2011 | DOI | < 20 GB | SNSF | ||||
GitHub | Commercial | Open | Company GitHub, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft in 2018) | Generic | Software | Specific copyrights | 2008 | No | SNSF | ||||
OLOS | Non profit | Open | Switzerland (OLOS Association) | Generic | Data | 2011 | DOI | SNSF | |||||
Open Science Framework (OSF) | Non profit | Open | USA (Center for Open Science) | Generic | Data | DOI | Also partnership with Internet Archive | SNSF | |||||
Zenodo | Non profit | Open | CERN / European Commission / OpenAIRE | Generic | Data | 2013 | DOI | < 50 GB (free) | Free software (Invenio) | SNSF | |||
Swiss Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) | Non profit | Open | Switzerland (Data and Service Center for the Humanities / Swiss National Science Foundation / University of Basel) | Humanities | Data | ARK | < 500 GB (free)[3] | SNSF | |||||
Harvard Dataverse | Non profit | Open | USA (Harvard University) | Social sciences | Data | DOI | SNSF | ||||||
SWISSUbase (formerly FORSbase) | Non profit | Open | Switzerland (FORS / SWITCH / DaSCH / University of Zürich / University of Lausanne) | Social sciences | Data | DOI | SNSF | ||||||
Academia.edu | Commercial | Registration | Articles | not open | not open | 2008 | Not open | Non compliant | |||||
ResearchGate | Commercial | Registration | USA - Germany (ResearchGate GmbH) | Articles | not open | not open | 2008 | No | Non compliant | ||||
Google Scholar | Commercial | Articles | Not open | Not open | None | ||||||||
Mandeley | Commercial | Not open | Not open | None |
According to OpenAIRE[4], there are several certification instruments to identify suitable Open repositories for research.
- CoreTrustSeal (CTS): this is based on Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and World Data System (WDS) van ICSU. All digital repositories that have one or more of these certifications are listed at https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/certified-repositories/
- Nestor Seal: verification according to DIN 31644
- ISO 16363 certification
Requirements
editAccording to OpenAIRE and European guidelines for research[4], researchers are requested to deposit in Open data repositories
- research data which allow to validate the results presented in scientific publications
- data identified in the data management plan
- tools necessary to validate the research results
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has a set of criteria for repositories and it provides a list of data repositories which are suitable according to its criteria[5]
- ^ "re2data.org registry of research data repositories".
- ^ "OpenDOAR".
- ^ Rita Gautschy (DaSCH), Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) in DARIAH-CH Study Day, October 20, 2022, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio.
- ^ a b "OpenAIRE, Guides for Researchers, How to find a trustworthy repository for your data".
- ^ "SNSF recommended repositories".