Repositories, Preservation & Storage Infrastructure
Once data is ready to be shared or archived, it needs somewhere to live that will keep it accessible and intact over time. This sub-cluster covers the infrastructure side of research data management: how repositories are chosen, evaluated, and certified, and what technical and organizational commitments underlie long-term digital preservation. CoreTrustSeal certifies repositories against sixteen requirements spanning organizational infrastructure, digital object management, and technology, giving funders and researchers a way to judge whether a given repository is trustworthy before depositing data with it. The Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model frames preservation and storage as ongoing actions rather than a one-time deposit, with distinct steps for preservation action (migrating formats, fixing bit rot) and store (maintaining the technical environment that keeps data usable). The re3data registry, meanwhile, provides a searchable directory of repositories with structured criteria covering subject coverage, access conditions, and certification status, which researchers and administrators use to identify an appropriate repository for a given dataset or funder mandate. For a research administrator, this area is where DMP commitments become operational reality: a plan that names a repository is only credible if that repository meets certification standards and will still exist, and remain accessible, well past the end of the award. Pages in this sub-cluster cover how to evaluate a repository against these criteria, what preservation actions a certified repository is expected to perform, and how institutional versus disciplinary versus generalist repositories differ in scope and guarantees.
Guides
ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data): Coverage, Coding, Access and Citation
What ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) records, how events are typed, how to access the data, and how to cite it and stay within its terms.
NEISS (National Electronic Injury Surveillance System): Researcher Guide
What NEISS is, how the CPSC’s hospital emergency department sample works, how to access the data, and the limits to know before analysing it.
Stock Centre: Research Stock Centres, Ordering and Acknowledgment
A research stock centre distributes model-organism stocks. Compare BDSC, ABRC and ZIRC on holdings, ordering, depositing and acknowledgment wording.
OpenTopography: Lidar and Topography Data Archive for Researchers
What OpenTopography holds, its access tiers and API quotas, and how researchers cite its lidar and elevation datasets.
WALS: World Atlas of Language Structures (Online)
WALS is the World Atlas of Language Structures: who made it, what it covers, how to cite version v2020.6, and how to download its CLDF data under CC BY 4.0.
NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card): Data, Sampling and Access for Researchers
How NAEP samples students, which NAEP data tools need no license, and when NCES requires a restricted-use license.
NSCH: National Survey of Children’s Health Data Guide
Where to find NSCH (National Survey of Children’s Health) files, the codebook and the guidance to read before analysis.
NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index): Formula, Data and Citation
NDVI formula by sensor, product scale factors and fill values, and a checklist for handling and citing Landsat, Sentinel-2 and MODIS NDVI data.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Data Rights, Releases and Access
Who holds Vera C. Rubin Observatory data rights, what DP1 and DP2 are, and which access routes researchers can use.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps: Model, Measures and Data Downloads
Guide to County Health Rankings & Roadmaps data: the 2025 model, download files and comparability checks before trending.
OnTheMap: Census Workforce and Commuting Data Explained
What OnTheMap is, how it relates to LODES files and census-block vintages, its confidentiality limits and how to cite the data.
GTEx: Genotype-Tissue Expression Portal, Releases and API
GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression): what the portal holds, how V7, V8, V10 and V11 differ in subjects, tissues and genome build, and where the API is.
Opportunity Atlas: What the Dataset Is and How Researchers Use It
What the Opportunity Atlas dataset contains, which downloadable files exist, how to cite it, and where its tract-level estimates are limited.
Digital Elevation Model (DEM): Definition, Types and Open Datasets
DEM vs DSM vs DTM, with SRTM, USGS 3DEP and Copernicus compared on resolution, datum and date, and a checklist for citing a DEM.
Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Data Access, Citation and 2026 Status
How to find and cite Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) data, plus the 2026 array recovery timeline and what stays accessible.
CLOCKSS: The Dark Archive Explained
What CLOCKSS is, how its dark archive is governed and triggered, how to check a journal in the Keepers reports, and how it differs from LOCKSS and Portico.
COMADRE: Animal Matrix Database Research Guide
COMADRE animal matrix database guide: discover matrix population models, Rcompadre workflows, demographic metadata, data structures, and citation standards.
World Bank Data: Guide to WDI, DataBank & API
A researcher guide to World Bank Data, WDI time-series, and DataBank. Covers CC BY 4.0 licensing, extraction workflows, API access, and citation rules.
Common Crawl: Open Web Data Corpus Guide
Explore Common Crawl for AI and text mining. Learn CCBot crawl mechanics, WARC and WET formats, CDX index queries, AWS S3 access, and research licensing.
ICSD: Inorganic Crystal Structure Database Guide
A practical guide to the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), covering search strategies, curated record contents, licensing, and citation standards.
ECMWF: Guide to Weather Datasets and Open Data
A practical guide to ECMWF datasets, open-data APIs, MARS archives, and Copernicus services for environmental, atmospheric, and climate researchers.
Gapminder: Global Data Platform and R Package
Explore Gapminder data sources, the CRAN R package, CC-BY and CC0 licensing terms, citation protocols, and dataset limitations for empirical research reuse.
Tropicos: Botanical Nomenclature and Data Guide
A research guide to the Tropicos database by Missouri Botanical Garden, covering botanical nomenclature, specimen records, REST API access, and citation.
NOAA Atlas 14: Precipitation Frequency Guide
NOAA Atlas 14 delivers precipitation frequency estimates across the U.S. Learn volume coverage, PFDS access, and the transition to NOAA Atlas 15.
National Bridge Inventory: Research Data Guide
A researcher guide to the National Bridge Inventory (NBI): dataset structure, 445-character layouts, SNBI transition, June 15 updates, and citation rules.
NHIS: National Health Interview Survey (CDC) Data, Design and Access
NHIS (National Health Interview Survey): who runs it, what it covers, and how to get CDC public-use, restricted or IPUMS NHIS data.
ImageNet: Architecture, Access, and ML Benchmarks
ImageNet guide for researchers: explore dataset scale, ILSVRC benchmark splits, institutional access terms, synset hierarchies, and privacy audits.
GWAS Catalog: Data Search, API & Summary Stats
A research guide to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: search workflows, REST API v2 parameters, summary statistics downloads, and Globus deposition.
Plant Genetic Resources: Access, SMTAs, and Data
A practical guide to accessing plant genetic resources, navigating ITPGRFA Multilateral System agreements, and documenting germplasm with MCPD standards.
Genebank Operations, Standards, and Access
A genebank is an ex situ repository conserving biological germplasm for research and breeding under FAO standards, MCPD metadata, and ITPGRFA access terms.
Organic Spectroscopy Databases: SDBS, SpectraBase and NIST WebBook
Compare SDBS, SpectraBase and the NIST Chemistry WebBook for organic reference spectra: operators, spectrum types, search keys, access and how to cite.
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource): What It Holds and How Access Works
TAIR explained: what the Arabidopsis database holds, the 2024 relaunch, the TAIR12 genome change, ORCID unit-based access and where ABRC stocks went.
DepMap: Cancer Dependency Map Portal Explained
DepMap is the Broad Institute’s open cancer dependency portal. Who runs it, what data it holds, how releases work and what to record when you cite it.
InterPro: Protein Families, Member Databases, InterProScan and Citation
InterPro classifies protein sequences into families and domains using member databases such as Pfam and SMART. Access routes, InterProScan and citation.
Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD): Domains, Ranks and Research Use
The Index of Multiple Deprivation ranks 33,755 English small areas on seven weighted domains. How to read ranks and deciles and use the data in research.
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): Access, API and Reuse
How researchers search, download, mine and cite the Biodiversity Heritage Library, including API v3, bulk exports and reuse rights.
IUCN Red List: Categories, Data Terms and How to Cite
IUCN Red List explained: the nine categories, how many species are assessed and threatened, data-use terms for researchers, and how to cite it.
cBioPortal: What It Is, Instances, Tabs and How to Cite It
cBioPortal explained: who runs it, the public, GENIE, CCDI and PDX instances, what each Results View tab does, and the three papers to cite.
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI): Six Indicators, Data and Citation
The six World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators, estimate vs 0-100 scores, margins of error, data access and how to cite the 2026 update.
NSQIP: What the ACS Surgical Quality Program and Risk Calculator Are
NSQIP is the American College of Surgeons quality registry. See how it differs from the risk calculator, whether it is risk adjusted, and its history.
General Social Survey (GSS): What It Is, Coverage and How to Access the Data
What the GSS contains, how its design changed since 1972, which download or archive route fits your need, and how to cite it.
HCUP: What the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Is and How to Get Its Data
HCUP, AHRQ’s family of all-payer hospital databases: compare NIS, KID, NEDS, NRD, SID and others, and see the ordering and training steps.
GNPS (Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking): What It Is and How It Works
What GNPS is, its full form, the molecular networking workflow from upload to results, access terms, and how to cite it and deposit data.
Zenodo: The CERN and OpenAIRE General-Purpose Research Repository
Zenodo is CERN and OpenAIRE’s free, general-purpose research repository, open to any discipline and output type. Here is what it accepts, how its DOI and versioning system works, and how it fits funder data-sharing mandates.
dbGaP: Submission and Controlled-Access Data Requests
How dbGaP submission and controlled-access data requests actually work: study registration and file submission for data-generating investigators, and the eRA Commons, Signing Official, DUC, and DAC review steps for a Data Access Request.
Versioning Research Datasets: Numbering Schemes, Concept DOI vs. Version DOI, and When to Mint a New Version
How to version research datasets: when a change warrants a new version versus a metadata edit, common numbering schemes, and how a concept DOI differs from a version DOI in repositories like Zenodo.
Submitting Sequence Data to NCBI SRA
A step-by-step guide to depositing sequencing reads in NCBI SRA: how BioProject, BioSample, and SRA run accessions relate, when to route data to dbGaP or GEO instead, and the submission workflow through the NCBI Submission Portal.
DOE PAGES: The Department of Energy’s Public Access Repository
DOE PAGES (Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science) is the Department of Energy’s designated repository for peer-reviewed manuscripts and articles from DOE-funded research. This guide covers who must deposit, the E-Link workflow, embargo history, and compliance mechanics for grant and contract administrators.
USGS ScienceBase: Trusted Digital Repository Status, Deposit Eligibility, and DMP Fit
Who can actually deposit in USGS ScienceBase, how its Trusted Digital Repository status is certified against CoreTrustSeal criteria, and when it belongs on a data management plan versus a domain or generalist repository.
Environmental Data Initiative (EDI): The LTER Network’s Data Repository
EDI is the repository that publishes LTER Network and broader environmental/ecological data as EML-described data packages — distinct from the EML standard itself and from NEON’s data-generating role.
Crystallography Open Database (COD): Open-Access Crystal Structure Repository
The Crystallography Open Database (COD) is a free, open-access repository of experimentally determined crystal structures in CIF format, with 520,000+ entries.
Paleobiology Database (PBDB): Fossil Occurrence & Taxonomic Data Repository
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is a free, community-curated repository of fossil occurrence and taxonomic data, covering the Phanerozoic under a CC BY 4.0 license and interoperable with GBIF via Darwin Core.
PubChem: NIH/NLM’s Chemistry Compound and Bioassay Data Repository
PubChem is NCBI/NLM/NIH’s free repository of chemical structures, substances, and bioassay data. What it covers, how it’s organized, and how research data managers use it.
CUAHSI HydroShare: The Collaborative Repository for Hydrology Data
HydroShare is CUAHSI’s NSF-funded domain repository for hydrology and water-resources data, models, and time series. Learn what it supports, how DOIs and publication work, and when it’s the right DMP choice.
DARIAH-EU: Europe’s Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities
DARIAH-EU is the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) supporting digital arts and humanities research. Learn its governance, member countries, funding model, and key services like the SSH Open Marketplace.
The Argo Float Program: Open Oceanographic Data Infrastructure
A guide to the Argo profiling-float program: how ~4,000 autonomous floats collect ocean temperature and salinity data, how it is governed, quality-controlled, and openly shared, and what it illustrates about large-scale open research data infrastructure.
IRIS/EarthScope: The SAGE Seismological Data Archive
How the EarthScope Consortium-operated SAGE Facility (formerly IRIS) archives global seismological and geophysical data, the standards it uses, and what the 2023 IRIS/UNAVCO merger means for citing it.
InvenioRDM: The Open-Source Repository Platform Behind Zenodo
InvenioRDM is the free, open-source repository application that Zenodo itself runs on. This guide covers what it is, who governs it, which institutions run their own instance, and how it compares to DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora.
GenBank: NCBI’s Foundational DNA and Genetic Sequence Database
GenBank is NCBI’s open, annotated archive of all publicly available DNA and RNA sequences — the base nucleotide layer that many other genomics repositories build on or reference. This guide covers what GenBank is, how it differs from RefSeq, how to submit and cite a sequence, and how it relates to the more specialized repositories already covered in this cluster.
HEPData: The Particle-Physics Research Data Repository
HEPData is the discipline-specific repository for scattering and kinematic data underlying particle-physics publications, hosted at Durham University and tightly linked to arXiv and INSPIRE-HEP.
CKAN: Open-Source Data Portal Software for Research and Government Data Catalogs
CKAN is free, open-source data portal software institutions self-host to catalog and publish datasets, used by many government open-data portals and some research data catalogs.
TalkBank and CHILDES: The Domain Repository for Language Acquisition and Communication Research
TalkBank is a research infrastructure for studying human communication; CHILDES, its flagship child-language-acquisition component, is the field-standard repository for language development data. This guide covers governance, the CHAT transcription format, licensing, and how it compares to CLARIN.
CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure and Data Repository for Plant Biology and Life Sciences
CyVerse is an NSF-funded, open-source cyberinfrastructure platform providing data storage, bioinformatics analysis tools, and DOI-issuing dataset publication for plant biology and life-sciences research.
Recherche Data Gouv: France’s National Research Data Infrastructure
Recherche Data Gouv is France’s national ecosystem for managing, preserving, and sharing research data, combining a central platform with a nationwide competence-centre support network.
DesignSafe-CI: The NHERI Data Repository for Natural Hazards Engineering
DesignSafe-CI is the NSF-funded data repository and cyberinfrastructure for NHERI, hosting experimental, simulation, and field-reconnaissance data for earthquake, wind, tsunami, and storm-surge engineering research. What it covers, how curation and DOI publication work, and where it fits an NSF data management plan.
Ag Data Commons: USDA’s Repository for Agricultural Research Data
What Ag Data Commons is, what data types it hosts, how it fulfills USDA’s public-access requirements, and how it fits among federal domain repositories.
CLARIN: Europe’s Research Infrastructure for Language Resources
CLARIN is the pan-European ERIC infrastructure for language data and processing tools, delivered through a federation of national consortia and built around FAIR-compliant access for linguistics and digital-humanities research.
ImmPort: NIAID’s Data Repository and Analysis Portal for Immunology Research
ImmPort is NIAID/DAIT’s public repository and analysis platform for immunology research data — assay results, clinical study data, and HIPC datasets — and the discipline-specific repository NIH points to for immunology data before a generalist option.
OBIS: The Ocean Biodiversity Information System for Marine Research Data
OBIS is the global open-access platform for marine biodiversity occurrence data, governed under IOC-UNESCO — related to, but organizationally and scientifically distinct from, GBIF.
UniProt: The Protein Sequence and Functional Annotation Knowledgebase
UniProt is the primary knowledgebase for protein sequence and functional annotation data, curated by a consortium of EMBL-EBI, SIB, and PIR. This guide covers UniProtKB’s Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL split, governance, licensing, and how it differs from the Protein Data Bank.
Protein Data Bank (PDB): Archiving and Reusing Macromolecular Structure Data
How the Protein Data Bank archives experimentally determined 3D macromolecular structures, wwPDB governance, deposition mandates, formats, and reuse in structural biology and drug discovery.
CDS Strasbourg: VizieR, SIMBAD, and Aladin as Astronomical Data Services
CDS Strasbourg operates SIMBAD, VizieR, and Aladin — the astronomical object database, catalogue service, and interactive sky atlas that much of professional astronomy relies on for FAIR-compliant data discovery, citation, and reuse. This guide explains what each does and how they interoperate.
NASA Planetary Data System (PDS): Archiving and Reusing Planetary-Mission Science Data
How NASA’s Planetary Data System archives and shares planetary-mission science data: its federated node structure, the PDS4 data standard, data discovery, citation practice, and its fit within FAIR/open-science compliance.
DANS: The Netherlands’ National Research Data Archive and DMP Support
DANS is the Netherlands’ national institute for research data archiving, jointly run by KNAW and NWO. This guide covers its Data Stations, DataverseNL, CoreTrustSeal certification, and how it fits into Dutch DMP compliance.
PANGAEA: Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science Datasets
PANGAEA is an open-access data publisher for earth, environmental, polar, and marine science data, offering DOI-based citation, editorial curation, and journal-linked data papers.
Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF): Federated Access to CMIP Climate Model Data
What the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is, how it distributes CMIP climate model data underlying IPCC assessment reports, and how researchers search, download, and manage access to it.
Copernicus Climate Data Store (C3S): Accessing Europe’s Climate Reanalysis and Projection Data
How to access the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS): what the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), operated by ECMWF, provides — ERA5 reanalysis, regional reanalyses, and CMIP/CORDEX climate projections — plus the registration, API, and licensing steps researchers and RDM offices need.
GWOSC: Public Access to LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Data
GWOSC is the public repository for LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA gravitational-wave strain data and event catalogs, including the O4b release and GWTC-5.0 catalog.
NOAA NCEI: Accessing the National Centers for Environmental Information’s Climate and Ocean Data
How to access NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI): its role as NOAA’s climate, weather, and ocean data archive, its predecessor agencies, what it holds, and the access tools researchers actually use.
NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network): Continental-Scale Ecological Data for Researchers
NEON is an NSF-funded, Battelle-operated observatory producing standardized, long-term ecological and environmental sensor data across 81 U.S. field sites — distinct from occurrence-record aggregators like GBIF. This guide covers what NEON measures, how it differs from GBIF, and how to access and cite its data.
NASA Exoplanet Archive: The Domain Repository for Confirmed and Candidate Exoplanet Data
A guide to the NASA Exoplanet Archive: what it is, who operates it, its confirmed/candidate planet and host-star data, its mission tables and tools, and how to cite its continuously updated datasets.
Materials Genome Initiative (MGI): The US Push for FAIR Materials-Science Data
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is a US federal multi-agency effort, launched in 2011 and coordinated via NIST and the NSTC, to accelerate materials discovery through integrated computation, experiment, and FAIR data infrastructure.
MetaboLights: EMBL-EBI’s Open-Access Metabolomics Data Repository
What MetaboLights is, who operates and funds it (EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR), what data types and ISA-Tab metadata it requires, how MTBLS accessions work, and how it relates to Metabolomics Workbench.
EMPIAR: The Electron Microscopy Public Image Archive for Raw Cryo-EM Data
EMPIAR is EMBL-EBI’s public archive for raw 2D cryo-EM image data. Learn how it differs from EMDB (derived maps) and the PDB (atomic models), and how to submit.
ArrayExpress: EBI’s Functional-Genomics/Transcriptomics Data Archive
ArrayExpress is EMBL-EBI’s archive for functional-genomics data, now operating as part of BioStudies. This guide covers what it hosts, the 2021 BioStudies migration, submission via Annotare, accession-number conventions (E-MTAB, E-GEOD, E-MEXP), and its relationship to NCBI’s GEO.
Metabolomics Workbench: The NIH-Funded National Metabolomics Data Repository
What Metabolomics Workbench is, who funds and operates it, what data it accepts, its mwTab submission requirements, its Study/Analysis ID system, and how it relates to MetaboLights.
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): NCBI’s Repository, MIAME/MINSEQE, and Accession Numbers
GEO is NCBI’s public repository for gene-expression data, built around the MIAME/MINSEQE minimum-information standards and a GSE/GSM/GPL/GDS accession system.
WorldPop: Open Gridded Population Data for Research
What WorldPop is, the public health, epidemiology, and disaster-response research it supports, its GeoTIFF gridded data formats and open access model, CC BY 4.0 licensing, and how to correctly cite a WorldPop dataset.
OpenNeuro: The BIDS-Based Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Platform
What OpenNeuro is, how it enforces the BIDS standard, which neuroimaging data types it hosts, and how it fits into the broader neuroimaging data-sharing ecosystem.
GREI: The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative
GREI is NIH ODSS’s 2022 initiative coordinating seven generalist repositories (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, OSF, Vivli, Zenodo) around shared standards for NIH-funded data sharing.
CESSDA: The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives Explained
CESSDA is the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) that federates national social-science data archives across 22 member countries behind a shared catalogue, trust framework, and FAIR-aligned tools.
Data Rescue Projects: Recovering At-Risk Scientific Data Before It’s Lost
What data rescue projects are, why at-risk research and environmental data gets lost, and how real initiatives like Data Refuge, DataRescue, and IEDRO have recovered it.
The “Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories” Checklist Explained
A section-by-section walkthrough of the NSTC’s 2022 federal guidance document: all 14 desirable characteristics for data repositories, plus the 7 additional considerations for repositories storing human data, and how research administrators actually use it.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network): How It Works for Researchers
A guide to how SSRN (Social Science Research Network) actually works: what researchers can post, how its subject-matter research networks and eJournals are organized, the submission and review process, its ownership by Elsevier, and how an SSRN posting differs from a peer-reviewed journal article.
Research Repositories: What Counts as One, and How They Differ From Archives
Not every place research output is stored qualifies as a repository. Here is what distinguishes a research repository from a general archive, institutional repository, or preprint server — and how to choose between them.
Data Publication Practices: Repositories, Data Journals, and Data Papers
What formally “publishing” a research dataset requires beyond sharing or depositing it: choosing between a repository DOI and a data-journal data paper, metadata, licensing, versioning, and how dataset peer review differs from manuscript review.
arXiv Preprints: What They Are and How to Use Them
A practical guide to arXiv: subject categories, the endorsement and moderation system, how it differs from peer-reviewed publication, and how to cite an arXiv preprint correctly.
NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR): Requirements, Deposit Process & Public Access Plan 2.0
NSF-PAR is the National Science Foundation’s repository for peer-reviewed publications from NSF-funded research. This guide covers deposit requirements, the 2015 and 2023 Public Access Plans, the zero-embargo rule for awards on/after January 22, 2026, how NSF-PAR differs from NIH’s PubMed Central mechanism, and a dated status note on OSTP’s reported repeal-in-progress of the underlying Nelson Memo.
ISBER vs. NCI Best Practices for Biorepositories: What’s the Difference?
A comparison of the two leading biorepository best-practices documents: ISBER’s Best Practices for Repositories and NCI’s Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources, and how institutions use them together.
Globus Data Transfer: How It Works and Why Research Institutions Use It
Globus is a nonprofit research data transfer service, built on the GridFTP protocol and operated by the University of Chicago, that lets researchers move large datasets reliably between institutions, HPC systems, and repositories with automatic retry and checksum verification.
Genome Projects and Research Data Management
How the Human Genome Project, 1000 Genomes, and GenBank shaped modern research data management, from the Bermuda Principles to today’s open/controlled-access repository model.
Dryad Data Repository: Costs, Curation, and DMP Fit
A practical look at Dryad’s curated submission workflow, its CC0-default licensing, current Data Publishing Charges, and where it fits relative to Zenodo, Figshare, and institutional repositories when writing a data management plan.
Figshare Data Repository: Features, Certification, and DMP Fit
A practical look at figshare as a generalist data repository: features, certification status (ISO 27001 vs CoreTrustSeal), and how to use it in a DMP.
CoreTrustSeal Certification: Requirements, Process, and Whether It’s Worth Pursuing
The full 16 CoreTrustSeal requirements, the self-assessment and peer-review process end to end, real certified-repository examples, and practical guidance for deciding whether your institution should pursue certification.
Checksum Verification and Fixity Checking for Archived Research Data
How checksum verification and fixity checking work, why trustworthy-repository frameworks like CoreTrustSeal and the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation require them, and the tools repositories use to detect silent corruption in archived research data.
How to Choose an Open Data Repository
Choosing an open data repository is a DMP commitment that also determines whether your deposit is discoverable and reportable through your institution’s CRIS.
