Facilitating use of Generalist Repositories to Share and Discover Data - A Workshop by the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative repositories

Workshop presented at the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Virtual Summit 2023 on March 27, 2023. 

Summary: The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, launched in 2022 with the goal of bringing together 7 generalist repositories to collaborate on enhancing support for NIH data sharing use cases including implementing common metrics and metadata, “coopetition”, and collaborative training and outreach. This workshop will present the GREI mission and goals and introduce the 7 generalist repositories participating in GREI and their common and unique features (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, OSF, Vivli, Zenodo), offer hands-on training and guidance on supporting researchers in using generalist repositories for data sharing including listing generalist repositories as part of data management and sharing plans, use cases supported by specific generalist repositories, and recommended practices for data sharing in generalist repositories. The session will also provide guidance on searching for data across generalist repositories and tracking open data impact and compliance with funder policies. Importantly, this session will also be an opportunity for GREI to gather feedback from the data librarian community on the needs and use cases for generalist repositories to inform future GREI work.