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Data management: Sharing data

What is data sharing?

Data sharing refers to the practice of making research data available to other researchers.
Data sharing is mandated by many research funding agencies, private foundations, and journals.

Data sharing policies

How to share

Deposit your data in SOAR@SU, the SU Libraries' institutional repository.
How to submit to SOAR@SU
 

Deposit your data in a disciplinary repository. 
Find a data repository in your discipline
 

Publish your data in a data journal.
A list of data journals
 

Submit your data with a journal article as a supplemental file.
See Science Journals' editorial policy as an example

The benefits of data sharing

  • promotes research discoveries
  • supports validation and replication
  • reduces redundant research efforts
  • enhances collaboration
  • increases research impact and citation rates
  • meets funders' data sharing requirements