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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2022 Nelson MemoThe 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.
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2022 OSTP Public Access Memo GuidanceTo aid in interpreting and comparing agency public access policies, SPARC developed a Publication and Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency resource that breaks down agency requirements under different sections. This page complements that resource to quickly surface agency policy implementation status and key information.
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Browse Publication and Data Sharing Requirements by Federal AgencyThis is a community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding both current and future U.S. federal funder requirements for sharing research publications and research data. You can review and compare agencies' public access plans for publications or data sharing requirements.
Open Repositories
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TXST Digital RepositoryThe 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 RepositoryThe Open Science Framework (OSF) hosts repositories across a number of disciplines.
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Open Access Directory (OAD) - Subject RepositoriesThis page contains a comprehensive list of open access disciplinary repositories organized by subject.
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PubMed CentralPubMed 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.orgbioRxiv.org is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
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arXiv.orgArXiv.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
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Texas State University Dataverse RepositoryThe 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.
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Re3dataRe3data is a comprehensive registry of research data repositories. Users can browse by subject, content type, or country.
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FAIRsharing.orgFAIRsharing.org is a registry of data repositories and other digital assets.
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DRYADDryad is an open data publishing platform committed to the open availability and re-use of research data.
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FigShareFigShare is a repository for datasets and manuscripts where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
Attribution
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Open Science GuideThis 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.