What is research data?

Any form of registration/ notes/ reported numbers, texts, pictures and sounds that have been generated during research projects. 

Where to archive research data?

Research data upon which a scientific publications or a concluded project is based must be archived in national or international archives that fulfils the FAIR principles.

The NMBU research data archive - "NMBU Open Research Data" (DataverseNO)

• NMBU's students and researchers can archive their research data in the archive "NMBU Open Research Data" (DataverseNO).
• The University Library assists with training and advice.

Other national archives

• Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD)
• National e-Infrastructure for Research Data (NIRD) for large datasets. Is operated by UNINETT/ Sigma2.
• The Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform (NELS) og ELIXIR NO. ARchiving biological and medical data. The infrastructure develops solutions for data analyses, -storage, -organising or -visualisation.

Examples of international archives

• Zenodo is a EU based data sharing system, widely used in humaniora.
• FAIRDOM 
• CESSDA - Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives 
• DRYAD 

Examples of domain specific data archives

• ELIXIR Core Data Resource
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• ENA - European Nucleotide Archive < EMBL-EBI
• BioImage Archive EMBL-EBI
• BioStudies EMBL-EBI

The web page re3data.org and Fairsharing.org provides overview of approved international archives that fulfil the FAIR principles.

Labelling Research Data

All data sets archived in national or international archives must be assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). This is available from the archive in which you will store your data.

Citing Research Data

Read more about Joint declaration of data citation principles of how research data must be cited.

Licencing

Licencing datasets is completed once uploaded into a data archive. Read about licencing here.