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Publishing data and code in institutional repositories fosters open science by making research outputs publicly accessible, ensuring transparency and reproducibility. By sharing these resources, researchers enable others to verify findings, build upon previous work, and reuse data and code for new studies. This practice not only advances scientific collaboration but also enhances the visibility of your work, ensuring proper credit is given. Institutional repositories provide a secure, organised platform for archiving data and code, helping to preserve research for future use and contributing to the growing open science movement.
Library recommendation:In the spirit of research that is “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”—while respecting privacy, collaboration agreements, and security requirements—we recommend depositing your research data in an institutional or discipline-specific repository whenever possible. If no suitable option is available, Zenodo provides a reliable, general-purpose alternative for data publication that can grant you a digital object identifier (DOI) for long-term reference. For version-controlled code, we recommend archiving a specific commit in your institutional Git repository to ensure transparency and long-term accessibility.
Both data and software/code should also be published with a clear license. For data, we recommend using a Creative Commons license (preferably CC0 or CC BY) whenever possible. For software or code, consult choosealicense.com or your institution’s legal department for guidance on appropriate licensing under institutional regulations.