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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Introducing CABBI Datasets Leslie Stoecker serves as the Data Manager for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), a U.S. Department of Energy funded initiative, focused on developing sustainable bioenergy solutions. In her role, Leslie deposits datasets on behalf of CABBI researchers. Here, we feature her testimonial about using the Illinois Data Bank.
What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository? What influenced your decision to deposit your data in the Illinois Data Bank? Is there anything else you would like to share about the Research Data Service, Illinois Data Bank, or your research?
The Illinois Data Bank offers many benefits to CABBI! One of the best is that we can easily meet our funder's data availability requirements by making datasets available with a DOI. After students or postdocs finish their time with CABBI, their data are still easily findable and accessible to share with collaborators both within and outside the Center.

For many of the datasets that CABBI produces, there are not subject-specific repositories to submit the data to, so we use the Illinois Data Bank because it is easy to use and access. Also, the wonderful curators perform thorough reviews of our datasets to ensure they are well-documented and formatted for long-term storage and use in the absence of accepted standards for these types of datasets.

The RDS and the Data Bank have made it easy to make our data available long-term. Both are wonderful resources on campus that help researchers create the best datasets possible and to help science advance.

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