Making research data repositories visible: the re3data.org Registry

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 R...

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Published in:PloS one 2013-11, Vol.8 (11), p.e78080-e78080
Main Authors: Pampel, Heinz, Vierkant, Paul, Scholze, Frank, Bertelmann, Roland, Kindling, Maxi, Klump, Jens, Goebelbecker, Hans-Jürgen, Gundlach, Jens, Schirmbacher, Peter, Dierolf, Uwe
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Language:English
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Certification
Databases as Topic
Documentation
Humans
Icons
Information Dissemination
Information services
Information sharing
Infrastructure
Library and information science
Open access
Registries
Reliability engineering
Repositories
Research methodology
Researchers
Scholarly communication
Schools of library and information science
Scientists
Typology
User-Computer Interface
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Summary: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 Data 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. In July 2013 re3data.org lists 400 research data repositories and counting. 288 of these are described in detail using the re3data.org vocabulary. Information icons help researchers to easily identify an adequate repository for the storage and reuse of their data. This article describes the heterogeneous RDR landscape and presents a typology of institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary and project-specific RDR. Further the article outlines the features of re3data.org, and shows how this registry helps to identify appropriate repositories for storage and search of research data.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0078080