Data repositories allow researchers to preserve and share research data over the long term. We aim to showcase a different data repository each week to raise awareness of these services.

The Council of Australian University Librarians has an Open Scholarship initiative (COSI for short).

The 2007 paper by Heather Piwowar "Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate" posited that data sharing would help boost a researcher's profile.

Ten Tales of Drivers & Barriers in Data Sharing is a collection of success stories and lessons learned about data sharing, re-use and data preservation.

In the US, 2.5 petabytes of data are stored annually just for mammograms.

The volume of earth-observation data from the European Space Agency's satellites passed three petabytes in 2007. The projection for 2020? A seven-fold rise.

Knowledge Exchange's A Surfboard for Riding the Wave report calls for a collaborative data infrastructure to enable researchers to use, re-use and exploit research data to benefit scientific research, and society more generally.

Data management and data sharing, while necessary and desirable, are not cost-free. But how are such costs to be estimated?

Does open science make a difference? How do working methods change? What are the barriers to openness?