Guides: Research Data Management: Share

Research Data Management Benefits

There are many reasons to make your research data available for re-use by other researchers:

To fulfill journal or funding agency requirements
To increase the visibility of your research
To raise your research profile
To allow others to validate your results
To promote collaboration
To avoid duplicating data collection
To accelerate scientific progress

Research Data Management Repositories

Find a repository for your discipline or contact your subject librarian for assistance in selecting a repository for your data.

FRDR - Federated Research Data Repository
Find and share Canadian research data.
re3data - Registry of Research Data Repositories
Global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.Repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions.

Licensing Research Data

Licensing your data allows you to define how your data can be used. Note: You may only grant a license if you are the rights holder for the data. Links to two commonly used data licensing options, Creative Commons Licenses and Open Data Commons Licenses, are included below.

For more detailed information, see "How to License Research Data" by the Digital Curation Centre.