Generalist Repository Comparison Chart

Stall, Shelley; Martone, Maryann E.; Carson, Matthew; Chandramouliswaran, Ishwar; Curtin, Lisa; Barbosa, Sonia; Federer, Lisa; Gautier, Julian; Gibson, Jennifer; Gonzales, Sara; Hahnel, Mark; Herzog, Jessica; Larkin, Jennie; Olson, Eric; Pfeiffer, Nicole; Sedora, Brian; Sim, Ida; Smith, Tim; Snowden, Traci; Sweet, Sarah; Van Gulick, Ana E.; Walker, Erin; Wood, Julie; Zaringhalam, Maryam; Zigoni, Alberto

doi:10.5281/zenodo.17315963

Published October 8, 2025 | Version v4

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Generalist Repository Comparison Chart

1. American Geophysical Union
2. University of California San Diego
3. Northwestern University - Chicago
4. Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies NIAID/NIH
5. Figshare (United Kingdom)
6. Harvard Dataverse
7. National Library of Medicine
8. Harvard University
9. Dryad
10. Northwestern University
11. Figshare
12. National Institutes of Health
13. Center for Open Science
14. OSF
15. University of California San Francisco, Vivli
16. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Zenodo
17. Mendeley Data
18. Vivli
19. Leidos Inc., NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
20. NIH National Library of Medicine
21. Elsevier BV

The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Generalist Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse held 11-12 February 2020 (workshop summary). Since the workshop, these seven generalist repositories have collaborated as part of the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) and have continued to iterate on this comparison chart resource to accurately capture repository attributes and guide researchers in selecting an appropriate generalist repository to share data and other research outputs.

It is important to state that researchers should first determine if an appropriate domain repository exists for their research data. Tools such as FAIRsharing.org and re3data.org can help with this determination. If using a domain repository is not possible, then a researcher should review both the Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and consider their own institutional repository as a possible location to store their data. Researchers need to comply with the requirements of their community, funder, country, publisher, and possibly others to ensure the best repository is selected.

Notes

Thank you to the American Geophysical Union for designing the document. Version 4.0 has been updated to the current services provided by the repositories and supporting policies. Thank you everyone for helping with the update.

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