Many publishers — including PLOS, eLife, and Springer Nature — require authors to publish the data
underlying papers in a suitable preservation repository.
Your funder requires it.
Agencies that fund research — including all US federal agencies — are beginning to require grantees
to publish data from funded projects.
It’s the right thing to do.
By offering clear description of your data including methods and instructions for reuse, you are
promoting efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility in the research community.
Why use our service?
Straightforward compliance. Submit your data to satisfy publisher and funder requirements for preservation and
availability with a minimum of effort. Optionally link data to the article and funding organization.
Any field. Any format. Submit data in any file format from any
field of research. Share all of the data from a project in one place.
Get discovered. Each landing page and dataset is optimized for
search engines. Include any relevant geo-location information to take advantage of our built-in
geospatial search.
Credit for your work. Get an informative landing page to
facilitate re-use of your data and a citable DOI so you can get credit. Add your ORCID identifier and we
will automatically send the information to your ORCID profile.
Steps to share
Prepare. Gather your data and the information that others
would need to use it. (Submission Basics)
Describe. Document your dataset. You can choose to describe
your dataset a little or a lot — including geospatial locations and links to publications and datasets.
(Metadata Basics)
Upload. Add your dataset through upload form or drag-and-drop. Each file can
be up to 2GB; datasets can be up to 10GB total.
(Upload Basics)
