Zenodo data repository: Providing practical solutions for data storage and data sharing

Abstract

Properly managing, preserving, and sharing data can be a daunting task, especially for busy researchers who are constantly confronted with new tasks and requirements from funders and their institutions. Zenodo is a general-purpose data repository that enables researchers, scientists, project managers, and institutions to share, preserve, and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data, software, publications, and other research objects) that are outside the scope of existing institutional or subject-based repositories. Based in the trustworthy CERN data centre, Zenodo is a service provided by researchers to researchers contributing to open science by capturing research objects and making them FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). This article addresses some of the challenges of data storage and data sharing, such as finding the right place to store data, citing data properly, and using hybrid data sharing solutions. It also demonstrates how using a data repository like Zenodo can help researchers address these challenges.