External Services

In general, there are subject-specific, generic and institutional repositories. A good overview of these repositories is provided by the re3data.org portal.

• Subject-specific repositories provide high-quality datasets, usually formatted “ready-to-use.”
• Institutional repositories, on the other hand, provide a centralized way to publish technical reports, theses, and other gray literature or research results.
• Generic repositories (e.g., Dryad, Zenodo, Figshare, and RADAR) provide a way to store heterogeneous as well as multidisciplinary datasets. These repositories use persistent identifiers and APIs that automatically report their content to other repositories for increasing the visibility of their datasets.