Why publish and share your data?

• Drives research integrity through peer review
• Enables reproduction of experimental and computational outcomes
• Meets UTAS data management policies
• Fulfills Australian Research Council  and NHMRC Open Access Policy requirements
• Meets publisher data availability policies
• Provides secure  storage, curation and preservation of research data
• Allows access, sharing, licensing, re-use and citation, increasing your research impact
• Enables metadata discovery promoting collaboration
• Re-use results in more research and better outcomes

Search the Publisher Data Availability Policies Index to check if a journal or publisher has a data availability policy.

Data sharing can enhance opportunities

• Expanding the scope and scale of research
• Research collaboration, both internationally and across disciplines.
• Citation, recognition, and promotion (useful for future grant applications)

Resources

•  Addressing a researcher's data sharing concerns, Research Data Netherlands

As Open as possible, as Closed as required

Research data is valuable - to you, the University of Tasmania, other researchers, funder organisations and Australian and international communities.

All researchers are encouraged to manage their data following the FAIR data principles and make their research data - as open as possible and only as closed as required. 

Resources 

• Sensitive Data, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
• Publishing and Sharing Sensitive Data flowchart, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

Need assistance?

Email Research.Data@utas.edu.au

Manage your research data for more guidance  (Intranet)