Data Sharing and Archive
There are different ways of sharing your data:
- Peer-to-peer: Via email, posting to a website, etc.
- Archiving in a specialist data centre eg. NERC's British Atmospheric Data Centre, or the UK Data Archive.
- Self-archiving in an 'open access' repository (some funders now mandate that raw data be archived alongside final results)
- Archiving in an institutional repository eg. the University of Oxford's Databank, currently being piloted.
Some funding organisations have adopted data sharing policies that encourage or oblige researchers to share research datasets, findings and outputs, in order to facilitate the validation of results and further work by other researchers.
The following pages will help you consider related issues, and how to comply with relevant requirements.
