Quels dépôts de données peuvent être utilisés ?

Le Fonds national suisse (FNS) exige, comme le font également de nombreux éditeurs et autres organismes de financement de la recherche, qu’au moins les données sous-jacentes à une publication soient déposées sur des dépôts de données ("data repositories") publics appropriés. Afin de soutenir les chercheuses et chercheurs dans leur recherche de plates-formes adéquates, le FNS publie une liste de "data repositories" qui sont fréquemment utilisés par la communauté scientifique suisse et qui remplissent les critères Open Research Data (ORD) du FNS. Cette liste se fonde sur le rapport de monitoring du FNS sur l’Open Research Data, publié en février 2020, dans lequel le FNS a analysé les Data Management Plans (DMP) de plus de 1'500 requêtes financées. Au total, 146 "data repositories" ont été mentionnés. Les "data repositories" qui répondent aux exigences ORD du FNS - et qui ont été mentionnés au moins 10 fois dans le rapport de monitoring - sont listés dans le tableau ci-dessous. D'autres "data repositories" qui ne figurent pas dans la liste peuvent bien entendu être utilisés, pour autant qu'ils respectent les principes FAIR.

Generalist data repositories

* As Figshare is a commercial entity, the SNSF allows the researchers to archive their data on this data repository but does not cover the potential data archiving costs (see art. 2.13 of the General implementation regulations for the Funding Regulations (PDF)).

** Github is a commercial platform that is well-suited to code development, but it is not a data archiving tool. Therefore, a copy of the code has to be archived in a data repository. For instance, you can set up a connection between Zenodo and GithubExternal Link Icon to ensure a permanent record of your code and make it citable.

Discipline-specific data repositories

RepositoryDescriptionRe3data entry
ArrayExpressDiscipline-specific (Life sciences [functional genomics]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010222
Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH) Discipline-specific (Humanities) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012374
Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)Discipline-specific (Life sciences [molecular structure]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010562
European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)Discipline-specific (Life sciences [sequencing data]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010527
Flow RepositoryDiscipline-specific (Life sciences [cytometry]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011280
GenBank*** Discipline-specific (Life sciences [sequencing data]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010528
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)*** Discipline-specific (Life sciences [functional genomics]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010283
Harvard Dataverse Discipline-specific (Social sciences) http://service.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010051
Image Data Resource (IDR) Discipline-specific (Life sciences [imaging]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012435
Materials Cloud Archive Discipline-specific (Natural sciences [material sciences]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012611
PRoteomics IDEntifications Database (PRIDE)Discipline-specific (Life sciences [proteomics]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010137
RCSB Protein Data BankDiscipline-specific (Life sciences [protein structure]) hhttps://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010327
Sequence Read Archive (SRA)***Discipline-specific (Life sciences [sequencing data]) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010775
SWISSUbase (formerly FORSbase)Discipline-specific (Social sciences) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013746

*** Part of the NCBI data repositories. NCBI operates a variety of resourcesExternal Link Icon, some of which are suitable for data sharing. In general, NCBI’s data sharing platforms are compliant with the SNSF Open Research Data policy.

Institutional data repositories

RepositoryDescriptionRe3data entry
BORIS PortalInstitutional data repository (University of Bern)https://boris-portal.unibe.ch
EnviDat Institutional data repository (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research - WSL) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012587
ERIC/openEawag Research Data Institutional Repository https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013421
ETH Research CollectionInstitutional data repository (ETHZ) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012557
PSI Public Data RepositoryInstitutional data repository (PSI) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013504
YaretaInstitutional data repository (Geneva’s HEIs) https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013423