LibGuides: Data: Find and Share: Data Repositories

Popular Data Repositories

Open: distributed online and free of cost or other access barriers

Subject-specific: limited to data of a specific type or discipline

Generalist: not limited to a specific data type, format, content, or disciplinary focus

Open and Generalist

Duke Research Data Repository
Does not accept data with sensitive or confidential information; provides 100 GB of preservation storage per deposit for Duke researchers with a fee for add'l storage; pricing info on the FAQ page.
Dryad
300GB limit per data publication if uploaded through the website; email Dryad for larger files.
Zenodo
50GB limit per dataset; no size limit on communities (data collections); contact Zenodo for larger files.

Generalist

Vivli
Anonymized clinical trial data; requesting data is free but those who access data through the secure research environment are charged a nominal fee; currently no fees to share or archive data; 1 Terabyte limit per study; contact Vivli to upload larger files; imaging data not accepted due to size limitations and upload/download speeds.

Find more detailed instructions and other information on Vivli's YouTube Channel.

Figshare
Public or private access; 20GB of free private space and unlimited public space; submit a support ticket for single files larger than 5GB.
Mendeley Data
Public or private access; 10GB limit per dataset.
Open Science Framework
Create private or public projects and datasets. Currently no limit on storage per project or user. Individual files must be 5GB or less to be uploaded to OSF Storage. Larger files can be stored in an add-on (see FAQs).

Open and Subject-Specific

Biology
List of related repositories.
FlowRepository
For flow cytometry. The upload process works best if you keep the number of files below 500 and the total number of GBs to upload under 12 GBs for each uploading segment.
NeuroMorpho
The largest collection of publicly accessible 3D neuronal reconstructions.
OpenNeuro
Free and open platform for storing and sharing Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) formatted data (e.g., MRI, PET, MEG, EEG, and iEEG)
HealthData.gov
Data supplied by federal and state agencies.

Subject-Specific

National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP)
Data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Data Catalog
For data collections produced by major NCI initiatives.
National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)
Consists of eight hospital-based registries and two outpatient registries with data from more than 2,400 hospitals and over 8,500 outpatient providers worldwide.
National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS)
Genotypic data for the study of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) derived from NIA funded studies.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Archive
Data from human subjects research funded by NIMH.
National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)
The largest aggregation of U.S. trauma registry data ever assembled.