Dear Carolina research community,
We are hearing from many researchers who have concerns about accessing datasets required for their research projects. The UNC Research Data Management Core is committed to ensuring that researchers and research teams have the resources they need to conduct impactful, rigorous research. One of our primary functions is to archive research data assets to make them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Like other data support organizations, we have made it a central part of our mission to archive public open access datasets. The Internet Archive, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and other established trusted repositories have also been working with the archive community to ensure enduring access to critical data resources that many researchers rely on.
RDMC provides the UNC Dataverse for research teams to archive and preserve their valuable research data following archival standards. We urge all researchers to leverage UNC Dataverse to preserve access to data required for your projects. All data held in the repository is backed up in multiple data centers around the country. Data are curated and regularly appraised by UNC RDMC staff to ensure data integrity.
- You can start by going to https://dataverse.unc.edu and logging in.
If you have not yet archived the datasets required for your research, consider doing so by depositing them in UNC Dataverse so that you and your colleagues have uninterrupted access. Be sure that the data you are depositing are public domain or licensed for reuse (e.g. Creative Commons or similar). Only deidentified data may be deposited in UNC Dataverse at this time.
- If you are looking for a place to deposit data containing identifiers, please contact RDMC by opening a ticket at https://tdx.unc.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=225.
The Carolina research community can work together to ensure that we all have access to the resources necessary to conduct research that improves the lives of North Carolinians and beyond.