Research data is a very crucial part of research activity. It comes in various formats like digital and non-digital. It is generated to analyze, validate, and explore the major findings or results of research. In the document of Data Management Plans (DMP), NEH Office of Digital Humanities [1] states data as:
"as materials generated or collected during the course of conducting research"
Some major research data types are:
- Documents (spreadsheets, docs, ppts);
- Notebooks: Labs or field;
- Multimedia objects (graphs, images, av);
- Questionnaires;
- Codebooks; and
- Experimental data etc.
In a scientific culture, research data plays a key role. Its access to the researchers is more important. This article discusses Re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories) and its implications. Re3data is an Open Science tool that gives researchers, funding organizations, libraries and publishers information on the existing repositories [2]. It is a service of DataCite. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is a joint project of the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, the KIT Library and the Libraries of Purdue University and other organisations [3]. Researchers always seek data and suitable access. Research data repositories meet their requirements, as they collect, share, and preserve data for perpetual access. So, the following sections demonstrate the use of Re3data.
#1 Basic features: searching
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We can search by content types data like archived, raw, source code, database, and statistical.
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We also can search on the global map. If we click on any country's map (Fig.4), it will show us the total number of repositories that a country have.
#2 Searching repositories
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By simple search Browse by country>India, we will be redirected to the result page which has some features like Filter, (1) Certificate types (4), Result found (2,3), Sorting (5).
#3 Selecting a repository
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This is one of the most prominent platforms available in India. Other government platforms are also associated with it. Fig.6 displays the information of a particular repository portal. It has basic information (1), additional information (2), subject categories (3), and content types (4). This is how we can find and use any type of repository. Another example implies:
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This has been retrieved by using the direct search "harvard dataverse". Researchers can find and download data from Harvard Dataverse.
Users need to understand their (all the repositories around the world) terms and conditions before using their repositories.
#4 Using their resources
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#5 Example: Harvard Dataverse
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This is the result page of the search query (2) "information literacy". It shows total search results (1,4), types (3), metadata (5), and year (6). For example, we will be investigating the arrowed title.
#6 Exploring metrics
