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Data Repositories

Data respositories are usually either institution- or discipline-specific.

Institutional Repository

IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship) collects, desseminates and provides persistent and reliable access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The About IDEALS wiki provides helpful information about how to contribute materials and about policies and guidelines for IDEALS, but here are some quick links to relevant pages:

• Getting Started with IDEALS - Provides 10 steps to make your research available in IDEALS
• File Format Recommendations - IDEALS accepts all file formats, but this page lists and explains preferred file formats
• Digital Preservation Support Policy - Defines the categories of preservation support available and provides information about which file formats fit in these categories
• Access Restriction Policy - By default, items in IDEALS have no access restrictions, but this policy explains access restrictions available for certain situations

Disciplinary Repositories

Databib is a tool to help identify and locate online repositories of research data.  Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship published Kirlew's "Life Science Data Repositories in the Publications of Scientists and Librarians," which highlights 21 life sciences data repositories.  Dryad and NCBI are examples of disciplinary repositories.

Dryad

Dryad is a repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences.  Dryad is governed by a consortium that promotes data archiving and ensures the repository's sustainability.  The site includes a Depositing Data to Dryad FAQ page that addresses all aspects of depositing data, such as data formats and embargoes.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

NCBI is a portal to numerous popular and well-established data repositories and tools for biotechnology research, such as GenBank (the NIH genetic sequence database).  The site includes a How To: Submit data to NCBI page.

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Last modified by: Sarah Williams on 5/1/13