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Data Repositories Conformant with the DOT Public Access Plan

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Researchers are encouraged to use publicly accessible repositories for the deposit of their data, where appropriate and available.

Conformant Repositories

The list is updated as needed, it is not an exhausted list of repositories that are conformant with the USDOT Public Access Plan.

Repository Link Who Can Publish Here? Does the repository cost money to publish? Does the repository provide DOIs? CoreTrustSeal Certified?
Carnegie Mellon University KiltHub https://kilthub.cmu.edu/ Any Carnegie Mellon University Faculty, Staff, or Students Yes, free to CMU affiliates Yes ☒
Dryad http://www.datadryad.org/ Anyone, even if not in a member institution Yes, if not affiliated with a Dryad Institution Yes ☒
Figshare https://figshare.com/ Anyone, even if not a part of an institutional repository No unless more than 500 files or larger than 20GB Yes ☒
Harvard Dataverse https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ Anyone No Yes ☒
University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ Anyone regardless of Member Institution Status No Yes ☑
Iowa State University DataShare https://iastate.figshare.com/ Iowa State University Scholars and Researchers No Yes ☒
Missouri University of Science and Technology Scholars' Mine https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/ Missouri University Science and Technology Faculty, Staff and Students Yes Yes ☒
Odum Institute Data Archive https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/odum University of North Carolina Faculty, Staff, and Students No Yes ☒
National Transportation Library's ROSA P** https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/ Those who work for or are funded by USDOT No Yes ☒
San Jose State University ScholarWorks https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/ SJSU Faculty, Staff, and Students No Yes ☒
Syracuse University Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) https://qdr.syr.edu/ Anyone, but institutional members are free Yes, if not an institutional member Yes ☑
Texas Digital Library Texas Data Repository https://dataverse.tdl.org/ Participating Texas Universities Faculty and Staff No Yes ☒
University of Nebraska- Lincoln Libraries' Data Repository https://sandy.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska affiliates No Yes ☒
Zenodo** https://zenodo.org/ Anyone without a designated repository No Yes ☒

Last Updated January 17, 2025

**Preferred by the Data Services Team

 

CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository a core level certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures. This universal catalogue of requirements reflects the core characteristics of trustworthy data repositories. To find out more about CoreTrustSeal and their requirements, please visit their website. 

At the CoreTrustSeal site a user can search the list of repositories and view the list of repositories that have achieved the CoreTrustSeal Data Repository certification.

 

Locate Potential Data Repositories

Researchers may use the Registry of Research Data Repositories' searchable listing of data repositories in the United States as a starting point to locate potential archiving options for their data.

Suggest a Data Repository

Researchers or institutions that would like to suggest a repository be reviewed for addition to this list, please complete the form following form. The Data Services team will review it for approval and let you know the result or reach out if we have any questions. For more information on how repositories are evaluated can be found can be found under Guidelines for Evaluating Repositories for Conformance with the DOT Public Access Plan. 

Submit a Data Repository for Consideration

Recommended Page Citation

United States. Department of Transportation. (2022). Data Repositories Conformant with the DOT Public Access Plan. https://doi.org/10.21949/1520566