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Research Data Support

Guidance for planning, organizing, securing and sharing research data.

Citing datasets

As an ethical consumer of research data, you should give a complete citation for any dataset that you use. Datasets are an important output of scholarly research and should be cited when used (as you would cite a scholarly publication).

Preferred citation

If you reuse data from a data center or repository, there is often a preferred citation in the summary of the dataset. See the example below from Dryad, a biological sciences data repository.

Image of a preferred citation for a dataset in the Dryad database.

Source: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.bn1gf

General Data Citation Guidelines

Examples of Data Citation Guidelines from specific data repositories

  • ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

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