Sharing in Open Science
Openly sharing research results and data is a core tenet of open science. Ensuring transparency and access improves reproducibility and limits unnecessary reproduction of studies that have already been attempted, leading researchers to more fruitful areas of investigation. Depositing your manuscript in a scholarly repository allows others to freely access and view your research. Data can similarly be shared by being hosted in a data repository of your choosing. Depositing your manuscript or dataset can make your work more visible online and help meet public access mandates for federally-funded research.
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The 2022 OSTP Memo, also known as the Nelson Memo, recommends that all federal agencies develop plans indicating how they will provide public access to the results of federally funded research. The Nelson memo applies to all federal agencies regardless of research budget amounts. It encompasses both peer-reviewed publications and their underlying data.
Open Repositories
General Purpose Scholarly Repositories
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The TXST Digital Repository is the open access institutional repository for the university to collect, manage, share, and preserve free, worldwide access to research and scholarship of Texas State University faculty, staff, and students.
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Open Science Framework Preprint Repository
The Open Science Framework (OSF) hosts repositories across a number of disciplines.
Directories for Subject-Specific Scholarly Repositories
Not sure where to find a repository related to your subject area? Start here.
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Open Access Directory (OAD) - Subject Repositories
This page contains a comprehensive list of open access disciplinary repositories organized by subject.
Discipline-Specific Scholarly Repositories
Biomedicine & Life Sciences
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PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the National Library of Medicine. PMC is the mandated repository for articles based on research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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bioRxiv.org
bioRxiv.org is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
Physics, Mathematics, & Computer Science
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arXiv.org
ArXiv.org was created at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is now housed at Cornell University. This preprint server hosts manuscripts from the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Data Repositories
- The Texas State University Dataverse Repository is hosted on the Dataverse platform, developed and used by Harvard University. It offers researchers a trusted repository to deposit, share, manage, and publish their research datasets. Researchers can also find and cite data across all research fields. The Texas State University Dataverse Repository is an open access data repository supported and hosted by the Texas Digital Library.
To get started go to: https://dataverse.tdl.org/dataverse/txst
Data Repository Directories
Not sure where to find a data repository? You can use the below directories to find one that best suits your subject area.
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Re3data
Re3data is a comprehensive registry of research data repositories. Users can browse by subject, content type, or country.
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FAIRsharing.org
FAIRsharing.org is a registry of data repositories and other digital assets.
General-Purpose Data Repositories
Attribution
This guide was created using many resources, many of them are linked throughout the guide. This guide was also built using information from UTSA Libraries and Museums guide on Open Science by Rachel Davis.