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 OUCS - researchsupport@oucs.ox.ac.uk.