Sharing & disseminating research data

<h2><span lang="EN-US">Data sharing vs data dissemination</span></h2><p>Data sharing refers to the peer-to-peer transmission of data privately between researchers and other parties. In contrast data dissemination refers to the publication of data through some form of public setting.<br><br></p><h2><span lang="EN-US">How to share data</span></h2><p>Research data can be shared by using Stellenbosch University's Microsoft Teams or file transfer applications such as <a href="/SiteCollectionDocuments/rdm/Filesender.pdf">Filesender</a>. <br></p><br><h2>How is data published?<br></h2><p>Data can be published in several ways:<br></p><ul><li>Data publishing via academic journals</li><li>Data publishing via data journals</li><li>Data publishing via repositories<br><br></li></ul><p></p><p></p><div><h3>Data publishing via academic journals</h3>Some <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php?la=en&fIDnum=%7c&mode=simple">academic journal publishers</a> require researchers to submit supplementary data along with their scholarly papers. </div><h3><br>Data publishing via data journals</h3><div>Research data can be published in the form of stand-alone data papers in selected <a href="https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare/Sources+of+dataset+peer+review">data journals</a>. </div><br><h3>Data publishing via repositories</h3>Researchers can publish research data through different types of repositories. A comprehensive list of existing repositories can be found on the <a href="https://www.re3data.org/">Registry of Research Data Repositories</a> website. Additionally, a software tool known as <a href="https://repositoryfinder.datacite.org/">Repository Finder</a> can be used in order to identify repositories which comply with accepted best practices such as the <a href="https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples">FAIR Data Principles</a>. <br>

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