At the End of the Research Process
Making Data FAIR
FAIR data are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. FAIR data meets certain quality requirements for easy reuse.
Sharing and Publishing Data
Increasingly, research funders, such as the SNSF, require their grantees and authors to publish their data together with the publication. Researchers have various options how to publish their data.
Copyright and Licenses
Your scientific work (including your data) is protected by copyright. As the author, you can grant other persons or parties the right to use your data. You do this by clearly granting a license.
Publishing Personal Data
Personal data can be shared if participants have given their consent. Often, personal data has to be anonymized before it can be shared. Even if the data itself cannot be shared, the metadata (data about the data) can be shared.
Data preservation
The Central IT offers the possibility to archive your data for the longer-term. Contact your institute’s IT coordinator to ask for details.
File formats for archiving by ETHZ
The Center for Reproducible Science offers a primer for the long-term archiving of experimental data.