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After the completion of your research, you are obliged to keep the raw research data for a suitable period and to make them available to other researchers upon request. You can do this yourself or you can elect to deposit your data in a data archive or repository.
In compliance with the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, UvA and AUAS request researchers to keep their raw research data for a suitable period. A commonly used period is a minimum of ten years.
UvA/AUAS figshare is the institutional data repository of the UvA and AUAS. In UvA/AUAS figshare you can safely archive and publish your data. Your file is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), a unique permanent link you can use in articles and presentations.
If necessary you can publish your data via UvA/AUAS figshare under an embargo. If you want to share a description of your data, but not the actual files (e.g. because they contain sensitive personal information), you can publish your data under a permanent embargo.
As in other data repositories, in UvA/AUAS figshare you describe your data using metadata. Metadata allow your data to be quickly and easily retrieved.
You can find more information about how you can store and publish your data using UvA/AUAS figshare in the manuals.
Your research funder or the journal in which you publish might ask you to place your data in a discipline specific or a national data repository. Apart from the costs the repository may charge you for preserving your research data, there are four other points to consider when choosing an external repository:
the quality of the repository
the options offered by the repository: persistent identifier, restrictions of access, licences
requirements of the repository: file formats, metadata
General repositories are not limited to data from a specific discipline or a specific research institute. In the Netherlands we have two national repositories: DANS Easy (humanities and social sciences) and 4TU (life sciences).
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