The Illinois Data Bank is a public access repository for publishing research data from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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

What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository?
“I poured myself, heart and soul into generating the dataset for this paper. It seems wrong for its usefulness to stop now that I graduated and a paper has been published. Depositing the dataset into the Illinois Data Bank gives me the feeling that my work in graduate school had purpose, that other scientists can pick up the torch where I left off.”