Publish my research data

Indiana University has multiple options for publishing your research data depending on the type of data and the intended audience. Please see below for more information.

Prerequisites

1. Secure your own environment.
2. Identify the requirements of your funder and/or program.
3. Identify the requirements of your journal and publisher. These are often called data availability statements or data sharing policies.

Directions

1. Consider the following
   1. What data do you want or need to share? (e.g., raw data, cleaned & processed data, data underlying published results, etc.)
   2. When will the data be made available? (e.g., upon publication, quarterly throughout the project, 12 months after the project period ends, etc.)
   3. How will the data be disseminated? (e.g., in a specialized repository like ProtBank, in a domain repository like ICPSR, in an institutional repository like IU ScholarWorks or IUPUI DataWorks, etc.)
   4. Under what conditions will users be allowed to access or use the data? (e.g., CC-BY license, terms in a Data Use Agreement, etc.)
   5. How long will the data be available, if the journal is hosting the data? Consider depositing a second copy in an institutional repository to ensure long-term access.
2. Contact the data librarian or subject librarian for your school or campus for more support and guidance.
   1. IU Bloomington: https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/data
   2. IUPUI: http://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/datasupport/data_sharing
   3. IU School of Medicine: https://library.mednet.iu.edu/ask-a-medical-librarian/

Email securemyresearch@iu.edu if you have other questions about cybersecurity or compliance relating to your research.