Research and Scholarship FAQs

аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Data Management Open Access Storage

Data Management and Open Access Storage (at USF) Grant proposal narrative blurb:

A long term (indefinite) data preservation plan will be used to store the data beyond the life of the project, using Digital Commons Data, a аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Libraries supported, accessible, data management repository.

Digital Commons Data adheres to FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse. All data is "archived in perpetuity for long-term availability, with Data Archiving and​ Networked Services" (). To support open data, all published datasets will have a clear license and a DOI for ease of citation.

Digital Commons Data is a module of Digital Commons, an institutional repository system used by the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Libraries. In use since 2007, the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Libraries has supported persistent access and preservation to scholarly works and datasets created at аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢with Digital Commons. The datasets created as a result of this project align with key library research collections, notably the Florida Environment and Natural History Collections Initiative ().

See our guide on how to use the repository: