Researchers and students are often consumers of publicly available data sets. Researchers are also required by many funding agencies to identify a storage location that will make their data searchable and accessible for reuse. Repositories have been established for a variety of reasons and range from the general purpose institutional variety to large-scale, discipline specific types. This can make it difficult to identify the best option for data storage and can make searching for appropriate data sets very challenging. We will compare DataONE, Data-Planet and Data.gov and describe how each tool can be used to search for data sets on a large scale and to locate and screen data repositories. 

Presenter(s)

Suzanne Reinmann