Research Guides: Datasets and Data Repositories: Data Repositories

Generalist Data Repositories

Dryad
"Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data."
Figshare
"figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner." Contains research data in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts.
Harvard Dataverse Network
"Receive web visibility, academic credit, and increased citation counts...allows you to display your data on your personal website, can be branded uniquely as your research program, makes your data more discoverable to the research community, and satisfies data management plans."
Open Science Framework
"OSF allows you to share what you want, when you want. Everything on OSF is private by default. Users have fine-grained control over which aspects of the project are made public."
Zenodo
"Zenodo helps researchers receive credit by making the research results citable and through...integrates them into existing reporting lines to funding agencies like the European Commission. Citation information is also passed to DataCite and onto the scholarly aggregators."

Science & Engineering

GitHub
"GitHub is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is mostly used for computer code. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features." (Wikipedia)
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
A list of data repositories recommended by NIH
NIH Figshare Repository
A joint NIH / Figshare collaboration brings this figshare instance to NIH grantees.
PLOS ONE Recommended Repositories
PLOS ONE, the flagship journal of the Public Library of Science, recommends these data repositories to prospective authors.
Scientific Data Recommended Repositories
The recommended data repositories for Scientific Data, a data journal published by Nature.
NSF Public Access Data Repository
Vivli
"Vivli is an independent, non-profit organization that has developed a global data-sharing and analytics platform [whose] focus is on sharing individual participant-level data from completed clinical trials to serve the international research community."

Social Sciences

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Note: Users must first create an ICPSR account to be able to access this resource from off-campus.
ICPSR is the world's largest social science data repository, hosted at the University of Michigan. The website also provides information the ICPSR summer program, and resources for teaching with ICPSR data. Temple University is an ICPSR member institution. Temple researchers have access to all deposited data, and receive discounts for depositing their own research data and attending ICPSR programs.

openICPSR
openICPSR is ICPSR's free, self-archiving repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. openICPSR is well-suited for depositing replication data sets (raw data associated with a journal article, provided so that other researchers can attempt to replicate the findings). Data in openICPSR is not quality checked or curated.
Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)
The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), a dedicated archive for storing and sharing qualitative and multi-method data. QDR is hosted by the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI) at Syracuse University.

Arts & Humanities

National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture
"The National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public."

TUScholarShare

TUScholarShare
A service to support the needs of the Temple University community around sharing, promoting, and archiving the wide range of scholarly works created in the course of research and teaching. The repository aims to make Temple scholarship freely available online to a global audience, with the goal of advancing knowledge and learning.