Research by Subject: Research Data Services @SDSU: Sharing Your Data

Globus at SDSU

SDSU Information Technology provides Globus to the SDSU community.

You can use Globus to:

Transfer data: Use the Globus web interface to manage your file transfers with a few easy clicks.
Share data: Grant access to internal and external collaborators to folders and files.
Use Google Shared Drives: With the integration of Google Share Drives, users will be able to take advantage of cloud storage to send, store, and share research data.
Manage and transfer protected data: Globus has signed a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with SDSU. This means Globus can be part of the IT security solution for electronic personal health information. Please note that the software tools used are only one part of required compliance. For additional consultation or resources, contact the Information Technology Security Office (ITSO) by submitting a request through the Campus Help Desk system in the Service Now portal.

Compliance With Funder Mandates

New NIH policy - As of January 25, 2023 you will need to have a data management and sharing plan for your grant. We are happy to help you prepare your plan.

Data sharing is often a condition of grants and must be included in your data management plan (DMP). There are many options for compliance with data sharing mandates. Putting your final data in an open access repository with a Creative Commons or Open Data Commons license might be an option if your data is not restricted in any way. But if you have security concerns, there are repositories that can work with you to anonymize or deidentify date and restrict access. If there are proprietary technology concerns, reasons for not sharing can be written into your DMP. Please contact the RDS Librarian in your subject area for help.

Providing Public Access to Data

These are just some of the repositories that can be used to provide funder mandated Public Access to the digital data that supports your papers. Some reasons for using a public repository, including a citation advantage, are presented in this article. Please contact the Research Data Management Team if you would like help finding a repository.

DataONE
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered observational Earth data.
Dryad
DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a growing list of journals; submission of data from other publications is also welcome.
figshare
figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Archive of social science data for research and instruction. Includes data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS. Topical archives include health, aging, education, criminal justice, and substance abuse.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
DNA, RNA and protein sequences as well as data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) and more.
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
The NIH supports many repositories, listed and linked on this site. If you are funded by one of the National Institutes of Health, find your Institute in this list for recommended repositories.
Open Science Framework
OSF allows you to have both public and private versions of your study. Once you have de-identified data in an OSF-hosted study, you can register the study and share it for your data sharing compliance. See our guide on OSF for more information at http://guides.library.vcu.edu/OSF
Re3Data
Not sure where to share your data? Look up a list of disciplinary specialty repositories for a wide range of purposes at Re3Data. This website lets you search data sharing platforms and sort through them for specific functions like data file types, specific sharing policies, and more.

Organizing your Data for Sharing

Even if you deposit your data, it is a good idea to keep your article pdf, doc*, and data together in a folder.

The Readme file should have all the background information about the data so anyone who looks at the data can figure out how you analyzed it to get your results (more in Organizing and Documenting Your Data). This is part of the Rigor and Reproducibility policy the NIH is promoting.

This is how your folder might look in your computer files:

*Keep the final peer-reviewed manuscript in case you need to deposit it for public access, not all publishers remember to deposit articles, even if you have indicated you are grant funded.