Generally, researchers put their scientific data in sites hosted by their institutions. When this option is not available, researchers share their data on public sites. Can you propose a good public scientific data archiving site that :
1. is free,
2. has long term availability,
3. with no pub adds,
4. has good reputation,
5. procures easy access to users (no registration, direct link, ... etc.)
6. preferably devoted to scientific data sharing.
Thanks in advance.
There are no "free lunches" per se, everything comes at some cost. If you consider your data to be safe in all aspects e.g. uncorruptable, then upload it where you like. "Free" comes with a multitude of problems. If a site is free for this endeavor, how long will it remain free? Eventually, the free wears off as an introductory appeal as the host must fund the site at some point so ads are almost inevitable (almost). You might hit on 2 or three of the concepts, but not all 6 as there are costs and opportunity costs. For example, if you want something it is going to rely on time, quality and price - you can get something fast and cheap (price) but the quality will suffer. Free comes at a cost - somewhere.
Dear Menouar
I understand well your problem. I would advise you to create you example a Yahoo or an Gmail account. They are free and meet your criteria. But the best way for archiving your articles is to back up them, for example, in a pen.
Hi Menouar,
You may want to look into Dryad Digital Repository, FigShare, or Zenodo. All three of these data repositories are recommended by high-profile journals such as Nature https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories#general
http://datadryad.org/
http://figshare.com/
http://zenodo.org/
Hi Menouar
I would recommend the same repositories like Steven (Dryad, Figshare, Zenodo).
You will find a comparison of these three repositories concerning licences, search/retrieval (etc.) here:
http://www.researchdatamanagement.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Modul-4-1_RepositoriesUeberblick.pdf
(it is in German, but I think it is easy to understand).
With best regards
Anne-Katharina
If your institution don't have a data repository you can try with Dryad, FigShare, Mendeley Data, etc.
Dear all,
Thank you very much. Your answers were very helpful, especially that of Steven Chang.
https://www.openaire.eu/opendatapilot-repository-guide
https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
Dear Rodney Duffett , the two repositories have been already suggested three years ago (openaire repo is zenodo). Please read Chang's answer. New suggestions are welcome.
http://datadryad.org/
https://data.mendeley.com/
http://figshare.com/
https://vivli.org/
http://zenodo.org/
https://osf.io/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/
And I also recommend this for comparison https://www.agu.org/-/media/Files/Publications/Generalist-Data-Repository-Grid.pdf
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