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Research Data Support Services for Researchers

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Archiving Research Data

What to Keep?

The DCC provides comprehensive guidance to help researchers assess what data to keep

Where to archive research data

There is no easy answer to this! General advice suggests to first check any funder guidance, then any well established subject or community repository options, otherwise use Swansea University’s data storage solution (see below).

Some funders mandate their own repositories for research data:

  • The ESRC have the UK Data Archive
  • NERC advice on data repositories
  • Wellcome Open Research list of approved data repositories
  • BBSRC resources

General lists of data repositories that can be browsed by subject

  • re3data.org (all subjects)
  • FAIRsharing.org (resources for all subjects)

The DCC has a “Where to keep research data checklist” which looks at how to approach the following questions:

  1. is it a reputable repository available?
  2. will it take the data you want to deposit?
  3. will it be safe in legal terms?
  4. will the repository sustain the data value?
  5. will it support analysis and track data usage?”

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