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Sharing, preservation and licensing: Data deposit

There are many compelling reasons why you should consider depositing your research data into an institutional data repository or subject or domain-specific data archive. Here are a few:

  • your data is kept safe in a secure environment
  • your data is regularly backed up and preserved for future use
  • your data can be discovered by search engines and included in online catalogues
  • the intellectual property rights and licensing of your data is managed
  • access to your data can be administered and usage monitored
  • the visibility of your data can be enhanced thus enabling more use and citation
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PILOT - Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html