Research Guides: Research Data Management: Data Deposit

Archiving and Sharing Research Data

Placing your data into a repository allows it to be saved after the life of a research project and makes sharing easier. There are a variety of repositories suited for different needs. Your repository choice may be based on data requirements, discipline as well as journal and funder requirements. Please consider contacting the RDM Librarian for advice about selecting a data repository.

RShare
RShare is TMU’s new institutional repository and research collaboration platform for research data and scholarly outputs produced by members of the Toronto Metropolitan University community and their collaborators. This repository will disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the university and make it available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. It is also the home of the University’s online archive of PhD dissertations and Masters theses.

RShare supports over 300 different file types (text, images, video, audio, 3D models, datasets) and allows for the viewing of these files within the browser. On RShare you can find articles, data sets, theses, dissertations, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, videos, etc. within the collection, and content is openly available to anyone on the web.

By depositing in RShare, researchers can increase the discoverability of their work, and comply with funder and publisher requirements. Traditional metrics such as views and downloads along with Altmetrics (social media reach) are available for all items.
Toronto Metropolitan University Dataverse
A data repository for researchers affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University. Allows you to archive and/or share data. The resource is part of Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Please contact the Research Data Management Librarian Nora Mulvaney at nmulvaney@torontomu.ca if you are interested in putting data into Dataverse - submitted datasets require review and approval prior to publication. Learn more at the Borealis User Guide.
Search for a repository on re3data
re3data.org is a registry of research data repositories. This resource may help you to identify a repository for your data. You can browse by data type and subject. Those tool is also useful for finding finding research data.
PLOS Data Repository Recommendation Guide
Academic journals may require authors to deposit data related to an article. PLOS ONE has a data sharing requirement. To assist authors they have created a guide for selecting a repository. You can browse repositories by subject. This resource is useful even for those not publishing in PLOS ONE .