It is important to deposit research data into repository that can assign a persistent identifier, in addition to a specialized repository such as SoyBase for relevant datasets. Examples of persistent identifier are DOIs (Ditital Object Identifiers), ARKs (Archival Resource Keys), and genomic data accessions at the major genomic data repositories: GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ; and variant data at the European Variation Archive (EVA). SoyBase will also assign identifiers internally, but relies on external persistent identifiers for data stability and to aid in integrating with other resources. Some frequently-used repositories are listed below. Please contact us if you have questions or would like to contribute data.
USDA Ag Data Commons (data.nal.usda.gov)
Free service. The Ag Data Commons "About" message: "a public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to help the agricultural research community share and discover research data funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and meet Federal open access requirements."
Dryad (DataDryad.org)
Requires free registration to use. Requires a Publishing Charge of $120 up front. Additional charge for package of files in excess of 20GB. Assigns a DOI to packages. Packages can contain multiple file types. Minimal metadata required. Text searching of user supplied metadata.
Figshare (Figshare.com)
Requires free registration to use. Provides web access to user uploaded datasets, PDFs, Presentations and videos. Assigns DOI to files of any format. Minimal metadata required for submission. Text based searching of metadata. Up to 20GB of free space and an upload limit of 5GB. Suggest a licensing of CC-BY for figures, media, posters, paper and filesets and CC0 for datasets and metadata (see above for license definitions).
Mendeley Data (data.mendeley.com)
Provides web accessible storage for datasets. Collects user supplied metadata and allows text searches of that metadata. Supplies links to internal or external data archives. A DOI is provided to datasets that pass Mendeley review. Users select license to publish their data under (see above for license options). Storage is free at the moment.
Nature Scientific Data (nature.com/sdata)
A peer-reviewed, open access journal for the descriptions of scientific datasets. Submissions of descriptions of big or small datasets. Archives the information needed to interpret, reuse and reproduce data. Provides a way to search for datasets using standard vocabularies and metadata collected in a standardized way. Supplies links to the repositories where the data is actually housed. Publication charge of $1675 USD. This gives < 100GB storage at Figshare. For uploads of more than 100GB additional charges apply. All content-types are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY; see above for definition)
Zenodo (Zenodo.org)
Requires free registration to use. Provides web access to user uploaded datasets, PDFs, Posters, Presentations and Software. Minimal metadata required for submission. Text based searching. Can restrict access. Provides DOI's to datasets. Can only accept files < 50GB at a time. Users can have multiple datasets. Users must specify a license for all publicly available files (see above for license options). Funded by CERN.
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