Sharing Data
Open Science Framework
Open Science Framework is an online research collaboration tool and data repository. OSF allows researchers to collaborate, document, archive, share, and register research projects, materials, and data.
To learn more about this resource, visit the Open Science Framework Guide.
Data Repositories
The University of South Carolina does not currently have a system-wide, long-term archiving option for research data. However, many external disciplinary and general data repositories exist. If you want or need to share your research data, one of these might be a good fit.
These repositories are also good places to find datasets for re-use.
- ICPSRThe Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Science Research is a data repository providing access to deposited data to member institutions, including USC.
- Open ICPSRRepository provides access to deposited data to everyone.
- Re3DataThe Registry of Research Data Repositories is a directory to data repositories across many disciplines. The tool provides links to repositories and includes information about deposit requirements.
- NIH-Data Sharing RepositoriesList of NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse.
Information about data repositories from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine can be found here.
If a disciplinary repository does not exist for your data, consider a repository for general data. The following repositories accept data from all disciplines:
Citing Data
If you are using another researcher's dataset, it's important to cite it to give that producer credit. Citing data also simplifies access to data for re-use.
Elements of Data Citations:
Data Creator
Title of Dataset
Year of Publication
Publisher (usually the data repository where the dataset is housed)
Edition or Version
Access Information (URL or other persistent identifier)
A recommended format is:
Creator (PublicationYear). Title. Publisher. Identifier
or, if version and type of resource are available:
Creator (PublicationYear). Title. Version. Publisher. ResourceType. Identifier
- DOI Citation FormatterIf you have a dataset's DOI, you can use the CrossCite Citation Generator to create a data citation for you.
Data Citation Index
- Data Citation Index This link opens in a new windowData Citation Index captures metadata from data repositories in the Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Arts & Humanities.