Contributing to UKDA-store

If the Acquisitions Review Committee accepts your research data for inclusion into UKDA-store, you will receive a letter specifically asking to submit data to the system.

UKDA-store is a self-archiving facility for managing and sharing research outputs, the focus being on data. UKDA-store enables a greater number of research data outputs to be shared by researchers, particularly in cases where the UK Data Archive may not have the resources to acquire and store these data, or where the data simply do not fit the Archive’s collections development policy. The UKDA-store system can also link to other kinds of outputs, such as academic publications held in existing repositories. This includes existing publications held in the ESRC Research catalogue which holds primary outputs such as publications arising from research grants.

The first phase of UKDA-store is geared towards ESRC award holders who are required to offer data outputs for sharing under the terms of their award contract.

The first steps in contributing to UKDA-store are to:

• prepare your data and documentation following best practice guidance on managing and sharing data
• upload your data into UKDA-store
• publish your data in UKDA-store

For more infomation about the development see What is UKDA-store?.