Data Repositories

To encourage data sharing and to support the FAIR principles for making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, a growing number of study sponsors (such as the National Institutes of Health) and peer-reviewed journals strongly recommend depositing data into open repositories. This guide will help you identity the right options for your needs, whether you are looking to deposit data or searching for datasets to reuse.

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General

• FAIRsharing
• FAIRsharing is a community of data science experts that maintains a registry of databases, data portals, and repositories. 
• NIH-Supported Data Repositories
  This interactive table of data repositories can be filtered and sorted to identify relevant locations for data storage and sharing across a variety of research areas and funders.
• Registry of Research Data Repositories
• The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) is a curated directory of data repositories across multiple disciplines and supported by various international organizations.
• Network of the National Library of Medicine Data Repository Finder
  This interactive resource helps researchers select suitable repositories for data sharing to meet NIH policy requirements.

NYU-Associated Repositories

• UltraViolet
  The UltraViolet data repository service provides NYU faculty, students, and researchers with a place to deposit scholarly materials for open access publishing and long-term preservation, with a particular focus on data sets and software. The service, which is free to members of the NYU research community, provides stable, long-term public access to digital scholarly materials. By default, material deposited will be immediately openly accessible under the provisions of a license selected by the depositor and made available for download worldwide over the Web. All deposits are curated prior to publication by NYU Libraries' curation team to ensure their compliance with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) standards. To learn more about the repository's guidelines for depositing data, review their policies. 
• Databrary
  Databrary, a joint project of Penn State and NYU, is a video data library that was developed to meet the needs of behavioral scientists. Databrary is a free, secure, web-based repository that can store various research products (e.g., audio and video data files, participant demographics, study metadata, instrumentation and stimuli, procedural videos, coding manuals, and analysis scripts). These materials may also be shared with specific audiences to meet funder and journal requirements.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a longstanding data repository for the social sciences. Researchers at NYU Langone can acquire membership-level access to the repository if they sign up with their institutional email address while on campus or through a virtual/remote desktop.
• NYU Faculty Data Archive
  The Faculty Data Archive (FDA) is available to NYU Langone researchers with a valid NYU NetID. NYU Langone Health employees, faculty, and house staff may retrieve their NYU NetID by visiting the Lookup Tool. Users must log in with their NetID to upload materials and access the full repository.
• NYU Spatial Data Repository
  The Spatial Data Repository (SDR) is a collection of geospatial and geographic resources that is curated by NYU Libraries. SDR includes open data and proprietary resources that may be retrieved over the web (via Web Feature Services or Web Map Services) or downloaded to a local desktop.
• Open Science Framework
  The Open Science Framework (OSF) is an online project management platform that can also be used to share data. In order to connect to the NYU OSF portal to deposit files, researchers must have a NYU NetID. NYU Langone Health employees, faculty, and house staff may retrieve their NYU NetID by visiting the Lookup Tool.