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

Nick Abboud Nick is a PhD student in the Department of Physics. His research aims to uncover and better understand quantum-mechanical effects in the large-scale collective motion of many-body systems driven far from thermal equilibrium. His work finds applications in diverse physical settings across widely separated scales, from tiny droplets of quark-gluon plasma produced in collisions between atomic nuclei to electron gases in tabletop quantum materials.

What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository?

Numerical codes play an essential role in interpreting experimental data. By making my code publicly accessible, I establish a transparent reference for methods and results that cannot be fully captured in a traditional publication format. This allows others to examine the numerical implementation directly and reproduce the results, ultimately strengthening the work and facilitating extensions in related settings. Publishing in the Illinois Data Bank also ensures that this material remains available over the long term without requiring me to personally maintain a separate repository.

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