Deposit data
The UK Data Service supports the deposit, dissemination, and preservation of social science data collections within the thematic scope of the Collections Development Policy (PDF).
Whether you conduct large-scale population-representative or experimental research, make your data collections available with the UK’s largest social, economic, and population data repository.
- No costs associated with depositing, ensuring equitable access for all data producers.
- An intuitive online platform for creating, uploading, and managing deposits.
- FAIR-compliant data practices ensuring optimised discoverability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of data collections, enhancing their long-term value to the research community.
- A three-tier licence framework facilitating a robust and customisable access policy.
- Comprehensive data management guidance and support to ensure compliance, ethical and legal sharing, and enhanced reusability.
- A Trusted Research Environment for sensitive and confidential quantitative data through the UK Data Service SecureLab.
- Increased impact and visibility of your research through resource discovery and citation supported with persistent identifiers (DOIs).
- Proactive promotion of data collections to national and international researchers via newsletters, partner archives, and research organisations.
- De-identified collection-level metrics provided for funding proposals, impact reporting, or project extensions.
New to depositing data
Register
Create an account to deposit data with the UK Data Service.
Deposit in our curated repository
For depositing large-scale, population-representative data collections.
Deposit in ReShare
For depositing smaller-scale data collections, experimental data collections, and code/syntax.
Prepare your data collection for deposit
Learn how to prepare and document your data collection to meet repository requirements and ensure it is ready for sharing, reuse, and preservation.
Manage and share data guidance
Learn about effective data management and sharing for advancing research, promoting transparency, and meeting funder and publisher requirements.
Free training workshops and events
New to collecting and depositing data? Or want to refresh your knowledge? Attend one of our free training events on research data management.
Hear from data depositors
Data created or generated during research or administrative processes are valuable resources that can be used and reused for future scientific and educational purposes.
"Understanding Society currently has 23,400 users. It’s absolutely essential to have the UK Data Service ensure that such a wide range of people, mainly in the UK, but also internationally, can use the data."
Get in touch
Contact our Collections Development team with any questions about depositing data with the UK Data Service not covered in our Help pages.
Contact our ReShare team with specific questions about the UK Data Service ReShare repository.
