Research Data Management

Publish Your Research Data

Dryad is an open-source, research data curation and publication platform. UC Santa Cruz is a proud partner of Dryad and offers Dryad as a free service for all UC Santa Cruz Researchers to publish and archive their data. Datasets published in Dryad receive a citation and can be versioned at any time. Dryad is integrated with hundreds of Journals and is an easy way to both publish data and comply with funder and publisher mandates.

Submit data in any file format from any field of research
Dataset receive a citation and can be versioned at any time
Publish data through publisher and researcher workflow integrations
Link data with related articles, code, and other datasets
Quality control from curators who ensure data are usable

Find a Home For Your Data

We can help you archive and preserve and/or share your research data in an online repository. We can also help you find data for reuse. Two common types of repositories are:

Institutional: Dryad (Partner with the California Digital Library)
Discipline specific: Selected data repository directories are listed below.

re3data
Find disciplinary data repositories across all subject areas. Easy to filter and browse by subject, keyword, repository type, funding type and much more.
Repository Finder
A pilot project of the Enabling FAIR Data Project led by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in partnership with DataCite and the Earth, space and environment sciences community, can help you find an appropriate repository to deposit your research data. The tool is hosted by DataCite and queries the re3data registry of research data repositories.

Selected Discipline Specific Data Repositories

Biosharing
A directory of life sciences databases and reporting standards
DataONE
DataONE comprises a distributed network of data centers, science networks and organizations. These organizations can expose their data within the DataONE network to provide open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.
figshare
A multidisciplinary repository where researchers can share research data online in a citable, sharable and discoverable manner. Unlimited space and 1GB of private storage space for free. All file formats accepted and given DOI's when published.
ICPSR - Deposit Data
A site to store, curate and share scientific data so others can reuse the data and validate research findings.
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ICPSR = Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
knb
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) is an international repository intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research. Share, discover, access and interpret complex ecological data.
Nature.com Recommended Data Repositories
List of scientific data repositories broken down by subject area, recommended by nature.com.
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse.
Open Access Directory: Data Repositories
A list of repositories and databases for open data.
PLOS Recommended Repositories
PLOS identified established repositories, recognized and trusted within their respective communities.

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Manage your paper or data set with a unique persistent identifier.

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Request a Digital Object Identifier (DOI): research@library.ucsc.edu

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