Deposit your data

Archiving your data

Following guidance from the OECD, some funders require researchers to deposit all research data resulting from their grants in designated data centres - eg. UK Data Archive (also known as the Economic and Social Data Service - ESDS), and NERC data centres.  A big advantage of depositing your data in an archive or repository is that it will be preserved in the long-term.   For more information:

SHERPA, hosted by the University of Nottingham, runs a service called JULIET which lists funders' rules and if they have a requirement for authors to use a particular repository.

University of Oxford data repository

  • There is currently no official repository for 'data' at the University of Oxford.
  • ORA (the Oxford University Research Archive) will in future have a formal role for the storage of research data via Databank, which is currently in development. Please contact ORA@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for more information.
  • If you wish to discuss deposit of data, please contact IT Services - researchsupport@oucs.ox.ac.uk.

 Links to further information and resources

  • The University of Cambridge’s research data management Web pages offer a section on Digital Repositories.
  • DataCite and Databib both provide lists of research data repositories.

Subject-specific guidance

  • Creative Arts: Unit 4 of the CAiRO Project’s self-study materials looks at some of the options available when seeking a long-term home for creative arts research data.