- More and more funders are requiring the management and sharing of digital materials produced as part of a grant.
- The public sees studies with publicly shared research data as more trustworthy, according to a PEW survey.
- Publishers may require a data sharing link before publishing.
- Your research community may expect it.
- Your data can be cited!
- You contribute to future research.
In many cases the researcher will have the choice as to where to place the outputs of their research: a domain repository, a general repository, and/or an institutional repository, such as ours.
If you use the Washington University Research Data repository (WURD), you get:
- a review of data and documentation for FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) through our data curation services.
- your primary research materials will be archived and accessible for future researchers to reuse, which increases your research impact.
- your research time and investment safeguarded in a trusted, long standing source, the University.
- fulfill grant requirements for data sharing.
- a commitment to stewarding your data for 10 years, at which time it will be reviewed.
- Improved discoverability and cite-ability of your research materials, through the assignment of a DOI and the dissemination of your research to international linked data platforms.
