Publishing research data involves describing it and, if possible, making it openly accessible. In return this makes data easier to find, cite and share with others, and guarantees that data are preserved beyond the research project’s lifetime. DAta can be shared via a data repository, where a copy of the data is preserved and made findable and accessible.
Publishing research data involves describing it and, if possible, making it openly accessible. In return this makes data easier to find, cite and share with others, and guarantees that data are preserved beyond the research project’s lifetime. DAta can be shared via a data repository, where a copy of the data is preserved and made findable and accessible.
Several repositories are available for publishing data. Some are specialist repositories accepting data from specific fields, while others are generalist repositories accepting any type of data from any field. Two such generalist repositories and Swedish National Data Service and Zenodo.
Swedish National Data Service offers together with Chalmers Data Office support and storage space for sharing research data. Chalmers Data Office reviews and published data descriptions and datasets published through SND, and preserves data published this way at Chalmers.
Zenodo is a data repository based at CERN and welcomes data and other digital objects from all researchers, independently of size and format. When publishing data through zenodo we encourage you to publish it through Chalmers’ Zenodo community
https://zenodo.org/communities/chalmers_university/
Specialist repositories can be found through re3Data.org, a global register for data repositories and related services.
When publishing data through a data repository a new Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is linked to the data. This persistent identifier ensures that data can always be cited and linked to. This makes data citations easier to track and ensures that these point to the correct version of the data if more than one version exists.
Chalmers Data Office can also provide DOI:s for cases where research data is made accessible through other means.
Swedish National Data Service
The Swedish National Data Service (SND) is tasked with supporting access to and preservation and reuse of research data and related material. SND has set up a network for local data support units at major swedish universities and research institutes. Chalmers Data Office at Chalmers e-Commons is a member of this network and supports Chalmers researchers with questions on research data management, making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Chalmers Data Office also offers training and resources in research data management, such as a Data Management Plan tool and long-term storage for published research data.
Citing Data
Publishing data makes them available for replicating, veriying and building on existing research. This increasing the transparency of your research.
Data can be cited the same way as other resources, with information on author/creator, title, publication year, version number, data repository and DOI. For example:
Barber, L.B., Weber, A.K., LeBlanc, D.R., Hull, R.B., Sunderland, E.M., and Vecitis, C.D., 2017, Poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances in contaminated groundwater, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2014-2015 (ver. 1.1, March 24, 2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Z899KT.
