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Research Data Management: Depositing Data

Data management basics and tools provided by the UC-system.

Funder (and UCR) Recommended Repositories

Merritt: The UC Repository

Merritt, Share, manage and preserve your content

Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Use Merritt to provide long-term preservation of digital assets, share your research with others or meet the data preservation requirements of a grant-funded project.

Data uploaded to Merritt is given a persistent URL.  Data stored in Merritt is not discoverable; it is only found if someone already knows the persistent URLs

EZID

Easy-Eye-Dee Long-term identifiers made easy​

EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create & manage unique, long-term identifiers

  • create identifiers for anything.
  • store citation metadata for identifiers in a variety of formats 
  • update current URL locations so citation links are never broken 
  • choose from a variety of persistent identifiers, including ARKs and DataCite DOIs 
  • Integrates with eScholarship to provide DOIs for journals published on that platform

If your publication or dataset is already on a persistent and sustained publishing space, such as eScholarship or a permanent dedicated server in the case of very large datasets, EZID can create a persistent DOI for permanent citation and discovery.  Contact us to to coordinate minting DOIs using EZID or set up EZID integrations.

Dryad | UCR

UC Riverside Library supports Dryad, an open-source, research data curation and publication platform. UC Riverside is a proud partner of Dryad and offers Dryad as a free service for all UC Riverside researchers to publish and archive their data. It is designed to be a simple tool for researchers to archive and share their datasets, while fulfilling funder requirements. Datasets published in Dryad receive a citation and can be versioned at any time.  All records created in Dryad are searchable; indexed in Data Citation Index (SM), Scopus, and Google Dataset Search; and provided a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI).  Dryad may be used as a permanent archive with stable URLs.

Dryad provides

  • Curation services for submitted datasets
  • A persistent DOI for permanent citation and discovery
  • Ability to make private or embargo datasets
  • Discovery and retrieval of data through faceted search and browse

Discipline Specific Repositories

Funders and journals often require that you publish your data in specific platforms or repositories. They may specify discipline-specific repositories such as ICPSR for social science data, GenBank for gene sequencing data, or OpenNeuro for neuroscience data.

PLOS One and Nature have compiled useful guides to selecting a disciplinary data repository. Both guides also contain criteria to consider when deciding whether to use a repository that is not among their listed recommendations.

The language in this section references wording from NC State University Libraries.