Biological Sciences: Library Resources

This page contains information for researchers seeking assistance with finding, managing, citing, storing, analyzing, and preserving data.

DMPTool is a resource for creating a data management plan. It is free, open source, and supports all major funders. There are links to funder requirements, sample DMPs, and guidance resources.

This resource, from Harvard University, provides links and a comparison of the features of over 30 electronic lab notebook software.

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ChemRxiv is co-owned and collaboratively managed by the ACS, Chinese Chemical Society, Chemical Society of Japan, German Chemical Society, and the RSC. It contains preprints from all areas of chemistry.

In wiki format, Data Repositories is a listing of repositories and databases for open data. It is arranged by broad subject area.

The ACS/Figshare Repository provides authors with archiving and access to open data sets and other supporting information that often accompany articles published in ACS peer-reviewed research journals. ACS authors can submit supporting Information and supplemental material in more than 100 file formats, including video and multimedia files, tabular data, and crystallographic data.

ASDL is a digital library that collects, catalogs, and publishes peer-reviewed educational resources in the analytical sciences. ASDL can be browsed by techniques, applications, format, and teaching resources, or the entire digital library can be searched.

Covering biology, medicine, chemistry, and earth sciences, Nature Precedings is an repository for scientists and researchers to deposit and share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened, but are not peer reviewed. Nature Precedings may be browsed or searched, and RSS feeds and email alerts are available for several subjects. Developed by Nature Publishing Group.

Hosted by Spring Harbor Laboratory, bioRxiv is an open access preprint repository for biology, including biochemistry and other areas related to chemistry. RSS and email alerts are available.

data.world is a data social network and search engine designed to accelerate and enhance data science by improving decision-making, knowledge transfer, and problem-solving. It is a community where communication and collaboration adds context to data. data.world is free to use, but registration is required.

DDE is a Department of Energy repository for datasets from DOE sponsored research. Its contents include numeric data, computer simulations, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images The repository can be searched by keywords or browsed by title, content type, DOE data center, DOE user facility, host Website, sponsor, or subject category.

Covering many academic disciplines, re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories. Each repository record includes the name of the repository, its URL, a description, subjects covered, content types, keywords, language, service provider, institutions, terms, and standards. re3data.org can be searched, or browsed by subject, content type, or country.