
Sharing, preservation and licensing: Preservation and trusted repositories
Depositing your research data in a data archive or data repository will facilitate its discovery and preservation. It will also ensure the long-term preservation of your data for future access by you and other researchers. While you may share your data informally by emailing it to requestors or posting it to a website, informal methods of sharing make it difficult for people to find your data and access it now and in the long-term.
Local institutional repositories
Some universities have their own data repositories that offer the facility for researchers to deposit, share and licence their data resources for discovery and use by others. Glasgow Caledonian University has Pure. This allows University staff to store data on their research articles. It also allows them to store the full text of their research articles where available.
National repository services
Some of the UK research councils fund data services to curate, disseminate and preserve data created as part of their funded programmes. Examples are the Economic and Social Research Council's UK Data Service (also known as the Economic and Social Data Service or ESDS) and the designated data centres from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Any teaching materials around research data for use by students can be deposited in Jorum, a national repository of learning objects for UK higher and further education. GCU also has GCUStore which allows staff to store multimedia learning resources. Contact the Digital Development Team for details.