Making research data repositories visible: the re3data.org registry
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computational Science, Legal Issues, Science Policy
- Keywords
- Research Data Repositories, Research Data Repositories, Research Data, Data Repositories, Open Research Data, Open Science, Data Sharing, e-Infrastructures
- Copyright
- © 2013 Pampel et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Cite this article
- 2013. Making research data repositories visible: the re3data.org registry. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e21v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.21v1
Abstract
Researchers require infrastructures that ensure a maximum of accessibility, stability and reliability to facilitate working with and sharing of research data. Such infrastructures are being increasingly summarized under the term Research Data Repositories (RDR). The project re3data.org – Registry of Research Rata Repositories has begun to index research data repositories in 2012 and offers researchers, funding organizations, libraries and publishers an overview of the heterogeneous research data repository landscape. Information icons help researchers to easily identify an adequate repository for the storage and reuse of their data. This article describes the RDR landscape, outlines the practicality of re3data.org as a service, and shows how this service helps to find research data.