Faculty and Researcher Resources

Resources, services, and information relevant to faculty, laboratory researchers, and clinical researchers.

Data Sharing and Repositories

Additional Research Data Planning & Sharing information is available from Upstate's Research Technology Core Unit.

Find a repository

A funder or journal may prescribe or sponsor the use of a particular repository. In absence of this guidance, most funder and publisher guidelines recommend the use of discipline-specific repositories whenever possible and a generalist repository when none are available.

Funder sites

American Heart Association Approved Repositories

NIDDK Network (dkNET) Suggested Data Repositories

NIH Open Domain Specific Data Sharing Repositories: Includes repositories with current NIH funding, sustained support, open data submission and access, and open time frame for data deposit.

NNLM Data Repository Finder: Tool to help locate NLM-supported repositories for sharing research data.

Comprehensive indexes

Repositor y Finder or Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data), both from DataCite
FAIRsharing, from the University of Oxford

When searching a comprehensive index, look for a repository that meets the funder or journal requirements. Not all repositories on these lists offer open access.

Start with published datasets

Search for datasets published by other researchers in your dsicpline. Articles with related datasets provide the location of the dataset. Use the indexes above to determine if the repositories found meet your needs.

Generalist repositories

Also listed on the NIH site.

Dryad Digital Repository
- Fees: $150 up to 10GB, additional charges above 10GB
- Size limit: recommend under 10GB per file, 2TB total data publication
figshare
- Fees: free up to 20GB
- Size limit: 20GB (total, for all projects)
figshare+ - for large datasets 250GB - 5TB
- Fees: $875 per 250GB
- Size limit: 5TB (total per project)
Harvard Dataverse
- Fees: none
- Size limit: 1TB (total, all projects)
Mendeley Data
- Fees: none
- Size limit: 10GB per project
Open Science Framework (OSF)
- Fees: none
- Size limit: 5GB for private projects, 50GB for public projects
Synapse
- Fees: free up to 100GB; paid "self-managed" up to 500GB; paid "customized" unlimited
- Size limit: see above
Zenodo
- Fees: none
- Size limit: up to 50GB, max 100 files. can request one-time increase for datasets

Data sharing policies

Look up funder policies in Jisc open policy finder (formerly Sherpa Juliet), a one-stop resource for funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving.

Select publisher policies & guidance

Cell Press
Elsevier
Oxford University Press (OUP)
SpringerNature (see also Scientific Data)
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Wolters Kluwer

Some journals will sponsor or pay the data repository fee for select repositories. See the author guidance pages for the journal in which you are publishing to see if this is an option.