Published November 20, 2025 | Version v1
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The Case for Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Real-World User Stories

  • 1. ROR icon Figshare (United Kingdom)

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These are the presentation slides from Session III of the 2025 MIRL Symposium, focusing on the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). This session provided attendees with practical resources and illustrative examples to support open data sharing and compliance with the NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy.

The presentation outlines the GREI Resource Toolkit for librarians and researchers, which includes:

  • The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart
  • The Generalist Repository Selection Flowchart
  • Best Practices for Data Submission Checklist
  • Guide for including generalist repositories in NIH DMS Plans

Additionally, the slides feature real-world user stories from seven generalist repositories (Harvard Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, OSF, Vivli, and Zenodo). These case studies demonstrate the tangible scientific benefits of data sharing, including data harmonization, enhanced reproducibility, support for multimodal datasets, and restricted access capabilities for sensitive health data.

 

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Funding

National Institutes of Health
Advancing Figshare and the generalist repository landscape to meet research community needs 3OT2DB000006-01S1
National Institutes of Health
Center for Open Science (COS) Proposal for the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) 3OT2DB000001-01S1
National Institutes of Health
THE GENERALIST REPOSITORY ECOSYSTEM INITIATIVE (GREI) 1OT2DB000002-01
National Institutes of Health
Zenodo and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) 1OT2DB000013-01
National Institutes of Health
Dryad and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) 3OT2DB000005-01S1
National Institutes of Health
Vivli: A Generalist Repository For Clinical Trials Data 3OT2DB000003-01S1
National Institutes of Health
The Harvard Dataverse repository: A generalist repository integrated with a Data Commons 3OT2DB000004-01S1