According to a recent report, Data centres: their use, value and impact,

The Dataverse Network Project has launched as an easy means of sharing research data.

The latest version of Share, the ANDS newsletter, is online. On page 6, Adrian Burton talks about connecting datasets to publications via a DOI.

Have you got research data you would like to share, or make better known?

And would you like some help with that?

The UQ eResearch Lab's Seeding the Commons project, funded by the Australian National Data Service, aims to improve the discovery and re-use of UQ research data. Your dataset may be large or small, digital or paper-based - it doesn't matter.

Citing data may soon be as common for researchers as citing publications, so it is timely that a method of citing datasets is being developed. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) have long been attached to journal articles and conference papers as a form of persistent identification. Now DOIs are increasingly being attached to data.

With the increasing availability of research data for sharing, the need for reliable ways of finding and citing datasets has increased. Enter DataCite, an international organisation which aims to: