Illinois Data Bank

You are ready to deposit data if:

  • your data is in a final state and not expected to undergo revisions.
  • you have removed any private, confidential, or other legally protected information from your data.
  • you are a faculty member, staff member, or graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • you have permission to publicly distribute data from all creator(s) and/or copyright owner(s).

Published data:

  • is open to anyone in the world.
  • receives a stable identifier (DOI) for easy reference and citation.
  • is readily available for anyone to access for a minimum of 5 years.
  • is located in a stable environment that complies with many funder and publisher requirements.

Researcher Spotlight

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Yuanxi Fu Yuanxi Fu is a PhD student in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a BS in chemistry from Nanjing University in China, a PhD in chemistry and a MS in bioinformatics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on argumentation in science.
What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository? Is there anything else you would like to share about the Research Data Service, Illinois Data Bank, or your research?
The primary benefit is to share the data publicly that I used to produce my research. As a person also studies methods in science, I understand it is possible to reach different conclusions using different methods. Yet the underlying data are always the same. Sharing the data is a way of showing honesty about my research and leaving the door open for future examination.

Research Data Service staff brought to our attention several errors and inconsistencies in our data, although we have done checking several times and thought our dataset was water-tight. Having another pair of eyes always help!

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