An official website of the United States governmentPreferred Repositories
NCCIH has identified data repositories that may meet the needs of our grantees. Please view our list of selected generalist repositories (it is not comprehensive).
| Repository | Disciplines | Maximum File Size | Cost To Deposit |
|---|---|---|---|
| PubMed Central supplementary material (attached to publications) | All National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers may use PubMed Central to share data. | Less than 2GB | none |
| Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) | Social and/or behavioral science (observational studies and clinical trials). | 30GB. Requests to exceed the limit can be made. | none |
| Vivli | Clinical trials data, data links to ClinicalTrials.gov. | Vivli data contributors can share files up to 1TB. Larger files up to 100TB can be accommodated. | membership |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) | NIH repository for genomic data (database of genotypes and phenotypes). | 5TB and/or 20TB | none |
| Figshare | All NIH-funded researchers may use Figshare for free. | 20GB (default limit). Submit a support ticket for larger files up to 5TB | tiered |
| Dryad | All NIH-funded researchers may use Dryad, which contains mostly data from the disciplines of biology, ecology, and evolution. | 10GB (from computer), 300GB (from server or cloud) | tiered |
| Zenodo | All NIH-funded researchers may use Zenodo, which is especially good for data with links to GitHub. | 50GB | none |
| Harvard Dataverse | All NIH-funded researchers may use Dataverse. It is traditionally used for social science data. | 2.5GB | none |
| Synapse | All NIH-funded researchers may use Synapse. Sage Bionetworks provides Synapse services free to the scientific community and receives support for some portals from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and foundations. | 10GB for free. Contact support for larger sizes. | none |
| Mendeley Data | All NIH-funded researchers may use Mendeley, which links datasets to journals. Mendeley has a joint relationship with Zenodo. | 10GB per dataset; institutions with subscriptions may create datasets up to 100GB | none |
| IEEE DataPort | All NIH-funded researchers may use Dataport. It contains mostly engineering and related sciences data. | up to 2TB | none |
| Natural Products Magnetic Resonance Database (NP-MRD) | All NIH-funded researchers may use NP-MRD (Natural Products Magnetic Resonance Database). It contains all NMR data generated by the NCCIH natural products community. | none | |
| Open Science Framework (OSF) | All NIH-funded researchers may use OSF, but the pioneers who used this platform focused on experimental psychology and cancer biology. | 5GB (larger files can be stored through an add-on) | membership |