Online Scholarly Identity

Sharing your data and research allows you to contribute to open science and allow other scholars to build upon your research. You can link your shared data to your scholarly profiles like ORCID. Many repositories work with ORCID so that you are unambiguously tied to your research and data.

IMPORTANT: If you have published your work, make sure you check with the publisher to understand which version of your work you are allowed to share. If you would like to publish your work, check any journal's you're interested in to make sure they don't have restrictions on if you've already shared your work.

Things to consider when choosing a repository:

1. If you have already published your work or if you have a data sharing requirement from funding, check with their rules for data repositories.
2. Does the repository have a statement on how long it pledges to maintain your data? Does it have a back up plan for maintaining access to data?
3. Is the repository well known? You want your data to be findable by as many scholars and researchers as possible.

You can think about the FAIR guiding principles for data management. Research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable. Read more about FAIR principles from GO FAIR: