Research Data Management

Collection of requirements from publishers for storing data into repositories

Table 1: Requirements/recommendations from 10 publishers for storing data into repositories with an appropriate license.*

Journal Discipline-specific repository Generalist repository License Unstructured/big-data data
Bioinformatics1 Refer to FAIRsharing.org or re3data.org Dryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Code Ocean Not defined Yes. Author needs to define how data will be accessible.
Biophysical Journal2 Recommendations HERE Zenodo + Github recommended for software Not mentioned Not mentioned

Cell group3

(Cell, Cell Reports,...)

Online repository that meets the criteria for digital longevity, implementation of FAIR standards, and community support as articulated by FAIRsharing.org and collaborators. Dryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Mendeley Data, ScienceDB CC BY-NC 4.0, CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Not mentioned
EMBO4 Counsel the FAIRsharing Dryad  figshareZenodoBiostudies  CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Not mentioned
F10005 GenBank and Protein Data Bank, respectively. Any appropriate public repository, such as Addgene, American Type Culture Collection, Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center... Dryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Code OceanScienceDBOSF, Biostudies  Data: CC0 license. Software and source code: OSI-approved license. Include all necessary information required for a reader or reviewer to access the data alongside a description of this process.
Gigascience6 Find repositories by subject area and data type on the  re3data.orgFAIRsharing and ELIXIR's Core Data Resources GigaDBDryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Qualitative Data Repository, Ag Data Commons, Synaps, Software Heritage, Docubricks, National and Institutional repository(s)  Data: CC0, Software: OSI-approved license; Hardware: CC0, GPL and other copyleft licenses GigaDB
NAR7 Listed HERE.   DryadZenodo Not mentioned Not mentioned
Nature group8 (Ncomms, Nature, Genome Biology, ...) Listed HERE.   Dryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, OSFScienceDB Not mentioned Not mentioned
PLOS Comp  Biology9 Listed HERE.   Dryad  figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, OSF, NDEx, Kaggle Not more restrictive than the CC BY license BioStudies, CSIRO Portal, DANS, GigaDB, SimTK, Swedish National Data Service
PNAS10 See the DataCite Repository Finder to search for appropriate repositories Dryad  figshareOSF CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY. When no public repository exists, authors must provide the data as SI or, if this is not possible, on the author's institutional website.
Science11 Listed HERE.   DryadDataverse, Zenodo, Code Ocean CC BY-NC and CC BY (required if funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, COAF, UKRI council, or a cOAlition S member.  

*Research data should be stored into discipline-specific, community-recognized repository with an appropriate license. If such repository does not exist, one should deposit data into a generalist repository. 

SOURCES:

1. Research Data Policy. Oxford Academics. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/authors/preparing_your_manuscript/research-data-policy#choosing

2. Guidelines for the Reproducibility of Biophysics Research (2017). Biophysical Journal. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/reproducibility-guidelines.pdf 

3. Information for authors. Cell.  Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.cell.com/cell/authors

4. Author Guidelines. The EMBO Journal. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.embopress.org/page/journal/14602075/authorguide#availabilityofpublishedmaterial

5. Data Guidelines. F1000. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://f1000research.com/for-authors/data-guidelines#generaldata

6. Editorial Policies & Reporting Standards. GigaScience. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/editorial_policies_and_reporting_standards

7. Data Deposition and Standardization. Nucleic Acids Research. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/nar/pages/data_deposition_and_standardization#table_202

8. Data Repository Guidance. Scientific Data. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories

9. Recommended Repositories. PLOS Computational Biology. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/s/recommended-repositories

10. Editorial and Journal Policies. PNAS. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.pnas.org/author-center/editorial-and-journal-policies#materials-and-data-availability

11. Science Journals: editorial policies. Science. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.science.org/content/page/science-journals-editorial-policies#data-and-code-deposition

 

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Last update: 20.4.2022.