Refodat is online

Since November 1, 2024, researchers at Thuringian universities have had access to a new service for the publication and long-term storage of their research data. The Repository for Research Data Thuringia ( REFODAT for short) is a generic publication platform for data from all subject areas, especially for those for which no suitable subject-specific repository is available. The publication of research data is free of charge for all researchers at Thuringian universities.

Data sets can be submitted at any time via the refodat.de website. An editorial team supports the submission process and ensures, among other things, that data complies with the FAIR principles as far as possible. In addition, the repository provides interfaces that make it possible to transfer collected and possibly curated holdings from other systems (e.g. work platforms) that cannot guarantee permanent availability. The assignment of a DOI, the linking of data authors and datasets with additional identifiers and resources (including ORCIDs, ROR, GND) as well as export and citation functions (such as JSON-LD or BibTeX) are supported. Data sets from researchers at Thuringian universities that have already been published in other subject repositories can be registered in the repository and the metadata transferred.

The service was developed by the Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), the Thuringian Library Service Centre (BSC) and the IT Centre of the Thuringian Universities (HS-ITZ) and funded as part of the strategy for digitization in the higher education sector (2021-2025). Permanent operation is ensured by the participating organizations.

Further information on the service can be found on  our activities page on REFODAT.

An initial overview of how the repository works will be given on December 10, 2024 as part of a 30-minute coffee lecture (online). Further information on this event will be available soon on the event website.