USC Dataverse: A Guide to Data Curation, Sharing, and Discoverability

On January 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, which stated that NIH funded researchers will be required to budget and develop a data management plan to make their data accessible. As a result, the USC Libraries and USC Center for Advanced Research Computing partnered to create the USC Dataverse that allows for the sharing and storage of USC research data created by faculty, students, and staff and satisfies the data management plan policies from the NIH.

This also allows for data to be accessible, discoverable and reusable by the public and provides the web visibility to increase the citation counts for USC faculty. When data is published on the USC Dataverse, it is also assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring a stable and standardized reference. The platform also hosts dataverse collections for various campus groups, such as schools, departments, centers and institutes. 

More information can be found in the USC Dataverse Guide.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to access and upload their own dataset to the USC Dataverse.