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DATA REPOSITORY

A data repository is any service that provides long-term preservation of and access to research data. Data repositories may be national or international services provided in support of defined disciplinary research communities, or institutional services based in research organisations.

RESEARCH DATA REPOSITORY

The best way to publish and share research data is with a research data repository. A repository is an online database that allows research data to be preserved across time and helps others find it.

Apart from archiving research data, a repository will assign a DOI to each uploaded object and provide a web page that tells what it is, how to cite it and how many times other researchers have cited or downloaded that object.

DISCLAIMER:

Tunku Tun Aminah Library is actively developing a research data repository at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Nevertheless, researchers are encouraged to deposit their research data sets into one of an Open Source Research Data Repository as follows:

  • Figshare
  • Zenodo
  • Mendeley Data
  • Dryad Digital Repository
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Open Science Framework