Illinois Data Bank

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

Megan Konar Megan Konar is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof Konar's research focuses on the intersection of water, food, and trade. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws from hydrology, statistics, and economics. Her research group is passionate about creating new data that can help researchers, decision-makers, and the general public better understand their food and water systems.

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 shar

It is wonderful to have the Illinois Data Bank as a resource to archive my group's research data in support of our scientific publications. We are committed to sharing our research data and the Illinois Data Bank makes this easy!

It is also great to work with the Illinois Data Bank because they understand and work with the peer review process. They will provide a draft mode for use during peer review, but will wait to publish the data until the paper has been accepted. It is also helpful to have a DOI for the data so that other researchers can easily find and build upon it.

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