Archiving beyond data at UCL
By Kirsty, on 14 February 2025
Article written by Dr Christiana McMahon, UCL Research Data Management Team
As we discussed in the blog post on Wednesday, there are ways to share and be transparent about your research without compromising ethical or legal requirements. Did you know that the UCL Research Data Repository (RDR) is a great way for staff and research students to archive, preserve, promote and publish these outputs created as part of the research process?
Have you ever been asked to archive other types of research outputs? UCL has RPS for articles, but did you know that you can also archive and share other outputs of research? Be it a whole dataset, or other types of material supporting your research such as photos, models, software, presentation slides, your Data Management Plan, even a poster.
By using the RDR, you can get a permanent identifier for your work in the form of a DOI and add it to your ORCID. Additionally, as you publish items in the UCL Research Data Repository, these are automatically collated together on a data repository webpage just for you.
With over 580,000 downloads globally, we have published over 950 research outputs that have been viewed in over 180 countries, so start publishing today!
- For more information contact: researchdatarepository@ucl.ac.uk.
- Access the full online catalogue: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/