Research Data Management

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.

• Ensure long-term data use: Researchers control levels of access, track data versions, and use numerous tools working with data 
• Meeting funder and publishers requirements: Each dataset is minted a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 
• Receive credit for your work: The Texas State University Dataverse Repository is free to use for TXST researchers and open-access data is made available to everyone worldwide

To get started go to: https://dataverse.tdl.org/dataverse/txst

• Select your institution: Texas State University
• Login with your TXST NetID and password
• Click “Add Data” to create a new Dataverse Collection or Dataset

Additional Resources for Quick Start

• Texas Dataverse Repository User Guide: User Guide for the Texas Data Repository.
• Texas State Researcher Data Repository Submission Checklist: checklist for researchers when preparing and depositing their research data.
• Texas State Dataverse Repository Quick Start Guide: Quick start guide for depositing and publishing data in the TXST Dataverse Repository.
• Find Open Data: Search open data from academic institutions across Texas.

The Texas State University Dataverse Repository is for the deposit of research data created by Texas State faculty and student researchers.

• This may include tabular files, geospatial files, textual files, digital images, digital audio, and digital video. Other data types are also welcome.
• Open nonproprietary formats are encouraged for long-term archiving. View of list of open formats:

Open Formats for Data Sharing

Accompanying publications, reports, presentations, and other scholarly materials can be shared in the Texas State Research & Scholarship Institutional Repository, and link to the corresponding and related dataset(s).

Texas State Research and Scholarship Institutional Repository

Depositing datasets in the Texas State Dataverse Repository

• Any Texas State University faculty, staff, or student researcher is welcome to deposit their data in the Dataverse Repository. Login with your TXST NetID and password.
• External researcher collaborators from other institutions or organizations can create a Google Mail account for access.
• Depositors may only submit original work to which they hold the copyright or have permission to deposit and which to the best of their knowledge will not infringe upon anyone’s intellectual property rights.
• Deposits should comply with the Texas State University Intellectual Property Policy: Ownership and Use of Copyright Materials:

UPPS No. 01.04.27 Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use of Copyrighted Works

• The default data deposit and usage license is the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain Dedication. Researchers may choose to change that and select a different license for reuse if they wish.

Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain Dedication

• Registry of Research Data Repositories: re3data
• Qualitative Research Repository: Dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines.
• NAHDAP: It acquires, preserves, and disseminates data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research

• Zenodo: A free and open platform for preserving and sharing research output

• ICPSR: it is research science data and resources on topics like social media, politics, economics, social sciences, government, GIS, & more.

• Sharing Your Data: This document will provide you with some things to consider if you want or need to make your data available to others. This document is freely available under a Creative Commons license in PDF format.
• Preparing Data for Sharing: How you get your data ready depends on the format -- do you have a dataset, a video, a recording? This document contains some resources to use to manage files in various technical formats, including statistical files; video, audio and multi-media; archaeology; history; performing arts; literature, language and linguistics; visual arts; digital games; and survey data. It is freely available under a Creative Commons license. PDF format.
• All About Codebooks: This document will aid in understanding how codebooks are constructed and how to "read" or interpret them in using associated data. It is freely available under a Creative Commons license.