Not all research has a positive outcome. Some research produces equivocal findings; some research results in negative findings. Research with positive findings tends to hog all the attention, which is good in one way but can be bad in others.

Are we interested in building the perfect data repository for our researchers …or in building one that might get used? It's a good question, and scientist Cameron Neylon has tried to answer it.

Antarctica is big and so is the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.

According to Graham Pryor, editor of Managing Research Data,

A new fact sheet, Archiving Research Data, has been added to our set of data management fact sheets today. The fact sheets are part of the Library's Research Support service. Please feel free to comment on any of the fact sheets or to suggest new ones.

CSIRO's Data Access Portal provides access to data published by CSIRO across a range of disciplines, in order to facilitate sharing and re-use of the data CSIRO holds.

TreeBASE is a repository of phylogenetic information - specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all types of phylogenetic data, such as trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes, representing all biotic taxa.

Cloud solutions to research data sharing seem to be popping up all over the Web.

Dryad is an international repository for the data that underpins peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Dryad is governed by a consortium of journals that collaboratively promote data archiving and ensure the sustainability of the repository.