Data that are to be saved for the long term should conform to quality standards which include quality metadata, appropriate file formats, etc. See: Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement 202-2021 – https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/

Archiving Options at UF
- Large data, small data with limited access
- Gatorcloud offers shorter-term storage that may be helpful while identifying a long-term solution.
- UF Research Computing offers affordable storage options.
- Datasets up to 50GB per record – Zenodo generalist repository (approved by UF Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Fast Path Solutions (FSP) for for open datasets)
- Contact us for discussion and referrals: datamgmt-l@lists.ufl.edu
- Small data that can be publicly accessible
- Permanent, Open Access storage from the UF Libraries’ Institutional Repository (IR@UF): http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufirg
- Generalist Repositories – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/generalist_repositories.html
Archiving Options beyond UF
- Discipline repositories — see options on the Datasets guide
- Journal publishers may offer archival storage for data that are supplementary to published articles. Examples:
- Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Content Innovation
- Mendeley Data – https://data.mendeley.com/
- Wiley-Blackwell Supporting Information
- Springer Manuscript preparation — scroll to “Electronic supplementary material”