Publishing strategy guide

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Data

Publishing research data is becoming more common. Some journals and funding bodies now require publication of research data. There are several ways to publish your data, including:

deposit datasets in an online repository
submit the data for publication in a data journal. Read more about data journals in the Data Journals Guide from the Australian National Data Services

ResData

ResData is the UNSW Library service for managing and publishing UNSW research data
it is a portal that creates Research Data Management Plans (RDMPs) and enables publishing data on Research Data Australia

Data publishing platforms

There are a range of platforms available for publishing data. In addition to ResData, UNSW researchers have institutional access to Dryad. Also, general repositories and subject specific repositories are available to individuals. When choosing the best publishing platform, check they meet your needs. You should consider:

the file size you are uploading
what licence you intend applying to the dataset to control how others use it
the sensitivity of the data and where it can be shared
if you intend to create a new version of the data

For support in publishing your data, please contact your Faculty Outreach Librarian.

	Platform
	Dryad	Zenodo	Harvard Dataverse	OSF (Open Science Framework)
File limit	300GB via UI >300GB by arrangement	50GB via UI >50GB possible by arrangement	2.5GB per file 1TB total per user	5GB per file (larger files can be stored in add on services)
Cost	No cost (for UNSW staff)	No cost	No cost	No cost
Versioning	Y	Y	Y	Y
DOI minting	Y	Y	Y	Y
Usage statistics	Y	Y
Closed/restricted files permitted	Private permitted for period of peer review	Y	Y	Y
Storage location	USA	CERN Data Store	USA	Australian data centre can be selected
File formats	Any	Any	Any	Any
Public API		Y	Y	Y
Integrations		GitHub	GitHub	Amazon S3, Bitbucket, Box, Dataverse, Dropbox, Figshare, GitHub, GitLab, Google Drive, OneDrive and ownCloud
Licence	CC0 only	See Conformant licences and SPDX licences	CC0, custom licence terms possible	Any
Restrictions	No personal health information No sensitive data	Sensitive data must be anonymised	No sensitive data	Personal health information data must be stored with a third party service

Questions to ask when publishing research data

Who would you like to use your data?

giving your data a license will outline how researchers can re-use your data, and Australian copyright law limits the re-use of unlicensed data
to see the kind of licenses recommended for UNSW research data read the UNSW Data Governance Policy and the ANDS Licensing and copyright for data reuse page

How will other researchers find your data?

does the data have a DOI?
is there adequate metadata?

How will it be stored so that it is accessible to other researchers?

UNSW Research Infrastructure has some solutions for data storage
see Where should I store my Data? in Research Data Management at UNSW
you also have the option of investigating if your faculty has its own repository, or if there is a more suitable discipline specific repository that should have your data record or dataset on it

These questions all reflect the FAIR Data Principles:

When research data is shared it should be in a way that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

The Australian National Data Service outlines more aspects of FAIR Data.

Need help?

Contact your Faculty Outreach Librarian