Research Data

If possible, it is recommended that you host your data in more than one repository. To start:

1. Check whether your granting agency suggests or imposes certain repositories;
2. Check if the journal that published the article based on the data recommends some repositories;
3. Look into disciplinary repositories;
4. If there's no disciplinary repository, consider the multidisciplinary ones;
5. Do not forget to find out whether Polytechnique or the commercial partner participating in the research have any specific requirements regarding your data (licenses);
6. Consult the table above and choose at least one repository that provides the functionalities you need.

Decide on the repository as soon as possible, ideally before starting data collection.

• Springer Nature
• PLOS
• The Royal Society
• Taylor & Francis
• Elsevier

Here is a list of some recognized repositories in their respective fields: 

Energy

• Open Energy Information (OpenEI)
  • "Centralized repository of high-value energy research datasets aggregated from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Programs, Offices, and National Laboratories."
• Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC) (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
  • "Public data resulting from federally funded research conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers and analysts."

Materials

• Materials Data Facility (MDF)
  • "A simple way to publish, discover, and access materials datasets."
• NOMAD Repository & Archive
  • "Host, share, and reuse materials data."

Computer and Software Engineering

• GitHub
  • "Millions of developers and companies build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub—the largest and most advanced development platform in the world."
• Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
  • "Conducts network research and builds research infrastructure to support large-scale data collection, curation, and data distribution to the scientific research community."
• RunMyCode
  • "Enables scientists to openly share the code and data that underlie their research publications."
• Bitbucket
  • "More than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy."
• SourceForge
  • "Open Source software community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible."
• LaunchPad
  • "Helps people to work together by making it easy to share code, bug reports, translations, and ideas."
• Other repositories

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Pangaea
  • "Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science"
• Other repositories
  • @ Nature
  • @ PLOS One

Health Sciences

• @ Nature

Biomedical Sciences

• @ PLOS One

Life Sciences and Biomedical Sciences - Big data

• GigaDB
  • "Data repository supporting scientific publications in the Life/Biomedical Sciences domain."

Chemistry and Biochemistry

• @ Nature
• @ PLOS One

Physics, astrophysics, and astronomy

• @ Nature