Find the best solutions for your research data
The ASU Library helps you prepare accessible, usable and citable research data. Our librarians provide expertise in curating and sharing cross-disciplinary research data produced at Arizona State University. We follow the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) for the open discovery, sharing and preservation of ASU research.
Do you need guidance in preparing, organizing and describing your research data or supporting a research project? The ASU Library works with partners across the university to ensure research produced at ASU is discoverable and accessible to the global community. Work with us early in the research process, and we'll help you establish ways for users to use and cite your data.
Features and benefits
We work with you!
Through our one-on-one consultations, receive help identifying your data publication options, metadata needs and documentation strategies to ensure responsible reproducibility of your work.
Credit for your work
We make data citation easy so that your work is more visible and discoverable to the research community. You can also track changes to our output.
Enhanced descriptions for discovery
The ASU Library participates in the open harvesting of metadata, which means public datasets are discoverable through tools such as the ASU Library One Search and research data discovery services like Google Dataset Search.
Persistent identifiers
Every dataset is automatically assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through DataCite, providing accessible and citable researcher data, increasing the impact of your research. We include your ORCID identifier to link your data to your online scholarly record. Link to your article DOIs to build a complete picture of your work.
Working with the librarians on the ASU Research Data Repository feels like an academic partnership. I was guided by experts in data curation to provide the right information to make sure my dataset was findable. ASU librarians provide expertise in open science and data publication for any research products that can be published in the repository. Even if you don't know where to start, they can help.
Kathryn Claypool Health Research Data Manager, Research Technology Office
The ASU Data Repository has become a critical part of my team's workflow. The metadata requirements and the assignment of a DOI means that the data are interpretable and discoverable to other researchers. The backing of the ASU Library means that critical project findings will be archived by a professional team of information specialists and the use of the open source Dataverse infrastructure signals continued support from librarians, data scientists and researchers around the world.
Mikhail Chester Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Explore and discover datasets
Share, find and cite research produced at ASU. The repository is powered by the Dataverse open-source application, developed and used by Harvard University.
Meet the team
Our experts are here to guide ASU researchers and administrators through sharing and preserving research data. By collaborating and connecting with us early, you have a partner to help you find the best solutions for your research data.
Matthew Harp
Research Data Initiatives Librarian
Rachel Fernandez
Research Data Reproducibility Librarian
The ASU Library’s Research Data Repository is built on the open-source Dataverse platform, developed and supported by the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.