Data Publishing

Huge amounts of research data are generated in experiments every day. With the rapid development of digital data collection, the processing and long-term availability of data sets in digital form is becoming increasingly important. By publishing research data, well-documented data can be made accessible and secured for the long term.

Benefits of data publication

Guideline 13 of the Code of Good Research Practice of the German Research Foundation (DFG) states that, for reasons of transparency, applicability of research and reusability, the research data and principal materials on which the publication is based should be made available in recognized archives and repositories.

The research data on which the research results are based can be made accessible for reuse more effectively through independent publication, as for example diagram data no longer has to be extracted manually from articles.

Publishing data enables third parties to reuse it for their research. In this way, it is prevented that the same data is collected multiple times and resources can be saved or used efficiently.

By publishing data on which scientific research is based, research results can be verified, thus increasing the integrity of science.

In recognized data repositories, research data are assigned a persistent identifier, usually a DOI, which enables data to be made available in a citable form (see also TIB PID and Metadata Service).

Publications with a link to the underlying data are cited more frequently (Colavizza et al., 2020; Piwowar & Vision, 2013; Henneken & Accomazzi, 2011).

Publishing research data at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)

Researchers and members of Leibniz Universität Hannover staff may use the local research data repository of Leibniz Universität IT Services (LUIS) for publishing their research data. The research data repository is linked to other LUIS IT services.

More information on Leibniz University Hannover's research data services can be found here.

Publishing research data at the TIB

With an in-house RADAR instance and the Leibniz Data Manager, TIB is providing sustainable infrastructures that allow the research data of its employees to be permanently archived and published.

Contact

For Leibniz Universität Hannover:

Anna Renziehausen
Email: anna.renziehausentibeu

For TIB:

Dr. Angelina Kraft
Email: angelina.krafttibeu

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