The UW-Madison Libraries became members of Dryad, a non-profit, community-driven data repository and organization, in June of 2021. While Research Data Services has been recommending Dryad as a trustworthy generalist data repository solution to campus …
Data Repositories
Transforming Qualitative Research with QDR
by Aatisha Cyrill Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is an invaluable tool for researchers to store, share, and reuse qualitative data. For many researchers, particularly in the social sciences, collecting qualitative data has traditionally been a …
Initiative to Improve Access to NIH-funded Data
The NIH Office of Data Strategy recently announced the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). This new initiative seeks to supplement the subject-specific NIH data repositories available to NIH-funded researchers with 6 generalist repositories. These expanded …
OpenCitations Enhances Citation Data with COCI
OpenCitations has been working toward enhancing citations to make citation data more easily discoverable and retrievable. In July, OpenCitations released COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references. The initial release of COCI created …
Tool: OpenICPSR
Written by Chiu-chuang Lu Chou; Information adapted from OpenICPSR OpenICPSR is a self-serving data repository for researchers who need to deposit their social and behavioral science research data for public access compliance. Researchers can …
Data Archiving Platforms: Figshare
by Brianna Marshall, Digital Curation Coordinator This is part three of a three-part series where I explore platforms for archiving and sharing your data. Read the first post in the series, focused on UW’s institutional repository, …
Data Archiving Platforms: Dryad
by Brianna Marshall, Digital Curation Coordinator This is part two of a three-part series where I explore platforms for archiving and sharing your data. Read the first post in the series, focused on UW’s institutional repository, …