NIH Data Management & Sharing Plan (DMSP): Sharing Options -- Repositories

• Built-in funding means it will continue to be supported
• Metrics available
• Local assistance from data professionals on your campus

• Less likely to accept sensitive data
• Not all institutions have an institutional repository

• ScholarSpace -  GW ScholarSpace provides free, public access, broad visibility, and long-term preservation for the research and scholarly works created by GW’s faculty, staff and students, including electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).  Scholarspace is maintained by Gelman Library. 
• Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC) is an online repository for gathering, archiving, and disseminating the research output of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the School of Nursing, and the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, at the George Washington University. HSRC is maintained by the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library.
• Scholarly Commons.  is a service of The George Washington University Law School. It is designed to provide broad public access to the extraordinary body of engaged scholarship and public policy involvement that are the hallmarks of our academic community.

• Developed specifically for people in your field
• Citations can likely be tracked, depending on service
• Metrics may be available

• May go under and stop hosting data
• May cost money to deposit
• May or may not provide long term preservation

• Dryad - a STEM focused data repository
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - a long standing social and behavioral sciences data repository with access options for restricted data.  Several of ICPSR’s topical archives and projects offer dedicated support for certain NIH-funded data: GW is a member.  Contact libdata@gwu.edu for more information.  
• Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) - a qualitative repository with restricted access options.  GW has a membership. Contact libdata@gwu.edu for more information.  

Generalist repository

(feature comparison of major generalist repositories)

• Great for interdisciplinary scholarship
• Citation can likely be tracked, depending on service
• Use is probably measured

• May cost a fee to deposit
• Company may change its terms of service
• Company may go out of business and stop hosting data
• May or may not provide long term preservation

• Zenodo- a repository for all types of data but popular with STEM fields
• Harvard Dataverse- a Harvard supported repository for anyone to deposit data into
• Open Science Framework (OSF)- has a strong workflow support option so you can use OSF throughout the lifetime of the project, not just at the conclusion
• Vivli - supports human subjects data.  Learn how Vivli meets the NIH Desirable Characteristics. 

• Good repository documentation and supporting information 
• Will likely continue to be supported
• Citations can likely be tracked

• Repositories do not yet exist for all types of data
• May or may not be prepared for long term preservation
• May only accept data from research funded by the specific granting agency

• NIH Supported Repositories - a list of NIH supported repositories focused on health data such as genomic sequencing
• Acceptable Repositories for USGS Materials - a list of USGS accepted repositories

• Data is connected to the publication it supports
• Citations can be tracked

• Publishers often strongly suggest relying on a data repository
• Publisher may decide to discontinue hosting data

• PLOS One - Supporting Information Policy
• IEEE Dataport - Free for researchers publishing in IEEE publications who wish to post supporting datasets for those articles.