Subject-specific repositories

The preferred mechanism for sharing research data is via data repositories with a persistent digital identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Authors are encouraged to deposit their research data in a repository that has been widely adopted within their research community. The following is a list of useful repositories.

Data type	Repository	Re3data/FAIRsharing
Earth and Environmental Science	Global Change Research Data Publishing and Repository (GCdataPR)	Global Change Research Data Publishing and Repository \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Science	NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center	Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Science	National Tibetan Plateau/Third Pole Environment Data Center	FAIRsharing \| TPDC
Earth and Environmental Science	NERC Data Centres	NERC Data Catalogue Service \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Science	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information	NCEI \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Science	PANGAEA	PANGAEA \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Science	Science Data Bank	ScienceDB \| re3data.org
Earth and Environmental Data, U.S. Department of Energy – Funded Research	ESS-DIVE	ESS-DIVE \| re3data.org
Arctic Data – NSF	NSF Arctic Data Center	NSF Arctic Data Center \| re3data.org
Climate Sciences	World Data Center for Climate	World Data Center for Climate \| re3data.org
Cryospheric Data	National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)	National Snow and Ice Data Center \| re3data.org
Ecology	Environmental Data Initiative (formerly LTER Network Information System Data Portal)	Data Portal – Home \| Environmental Data Initiative (EDI)
Ecology	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)	FAIRsharing \| GBIF.org
Ecology	KNB: The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity	FAIRsharing \| KNB
Ecology	TERN Data Discovery Portal	TERN Data Discovery Portal \| re3data.org
Environmental	Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	Centre for Environmental Data Analysis \| re3data.org
Hydrology, water research, water management	Find, Analyze and Share Water Data \| CUAHSI HydroShare	FAIRsharing \| HydroShare
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – Funded Research	Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC)	Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics \| re3data.org
Natural Hazards Data	DesignSafe-CI Data Depot Repository	DesignSafe-CI Data Depot Repository \| re3data.org
Satellite-based data	The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere	The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere \| re3data.org
Socioeconomic, Earth Science Data	NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)	NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center \| re3data.org
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Funded Research	NIH Open Domain-Specific Data Sharing Repositories	Search \| re3data.org
Water Data, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) – Funded Research	USGS National Water Information System	USGS National Water Information System \| re3data.org