Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP)

Data Management is a complex topic and HSLIC has put together more than one Research Guide on this subject.

For the NIH Data Management Research Guide click here.

For the Data Management Planning Research Guide click here.

For the UNM main campus Data Management Research Guide click here.

Outlined in this research guide are only a few of the resources available.

What do I need to put in my NIH sharing plan?

• Describe how your final research data will be shared, or why this will not be possible.
• Include the time frame for making data available.
• Describe what format will be used.
• Who has access and/or restrictions to the data?

Resources

NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing

Understanding the New NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy Video from NIH Grants

DMPTool (University of California)

This is a free tool to help researchers create their data management plans.  It has templates for major funders and examples of other DMPS.  An account is required for use and you can select UNM in the pull-down menu of institutions.

Find a repository

OpenDOAR - "OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held." 

Open Access Directory's list of disciplinary repositories

Biomedical Data Repositories

NIH-supported data repositories. List maintained by the Trans-NIH BioMedical Informatics Coordinating Committee (BMIC).

PLOS recommended repositories - PLOS journal recommendations for general and discipline-specific data repositories.

Scientific Data recommended repositories - Recommendations for general and discipline-specific data repositories. Nature Publishing Group.

The following data repositories accept submissions from any discipline. To find discipline-specific repository options, see the Disciplinary Repositories list below. 

• Dryad Digital Repository

  • Dryad is a general data repository for which UNM has an institutional membership. Our membership supports:

    • Deposits of data collections of up to 300GB in size
    • Provision of a Digital Object Identifier that can be used for citing a data collection and reporting to sponsors and publishers
    • Multiple methods of submission of data and documentation - web interface, linking to external storage systems (e.g. Dropbox), and secure FTP
    • Long-term preservation of data through the California Digital Library's CoreTrustSeal-certified repository.
    • Deposit fees are covered by our institutional membership. There are no costs to researchers.
    • UNM's Institutional Membership in Dryad is supported by the New Mexico EPSCoR Program through funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award #OIA-1757207.
• FigShare
  • "A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. figshare features aim to help you organize your research and get as much impact for it as possible, without adding time or effort to your day."

• Harvard Dataverse
  • “Harvard Dataverse is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. You can open your data to the general public, or restrict access and define customizable terms of use.”
• Mendeley Data
  • "Mendeley Data is an open research data repository, where researchers can upload and share their research data. Datasets can be shared privately amongst individuals, as well as published to share with the world. Search 26+ million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories."
• Open Science Framework (OSF)
  • "OSF is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. As a collaboration tool, OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the entire project publicly accessible for broad dissemination. As a workflow system, OSF enables connections to the many products researchers already use, streamlining their process and increasing efficiency."
• Zenodo
  • "An open repository for all scholarship, enabling researchers from all disciplines to share and preserve their research outputs, regardless of size or format. Free to upload and free to access, Zenodo makes scientific outputs of all kinds citable, shareable and discoverable for the long term"

Generalist Repository Comparison Chart