Share Data

By sharing your data with EBRAINS you gain access to the following benefits: receive data management support, store your data in a long-term repository, get a citable DOI and ensure proper credit, enable data reuse, foster new collaborations, get new funding opportunities.

The structured process of organizing, categorizing, integrating, annotating, reviewing, and publishing neuroscience data (including data, models, software) with structured metadata, using the openMINDS framework, so they become FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) within the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph.

EBRAINS accepts data from all modalities and from all species, as well as models, software, web services and metadata models (collectively referred to as research products) for sharing. You'll find detailed information about how to share each research product below. 

No, if communication is on a regular basis, we are able to finish curation within two weeks. Publishing your data naturally takes some effort but we will support you as much as possible.

We strongly recommend to start preparing for data sharing as early as possible. With a structured data repository and adequate notes on how the data was acquired, you greatly minimize the effort required to publish your data. The time it takes to share data on EBRAINS heavily depends on the engagement from the researcher and how well the data and metadata is prepared before-hand. Contact us for personalised guidance on how to prepare for sharing.

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Yes, post-mortem and anonymized human data can be shared openly, given direct identifiers in the metadata are removed. 
For identifiable data obtained from living human subjects, compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) must also be assured. For access to GDPR-sensitive data registered in the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, users need to comply with a set of conditions, including the acceptance of an additional Data Use Agreement. EBRAINS provides services for sharing of sensitive data via Trusted Research Environments that make the sharing of pseudonymous and raw data possible.

When you publish your data via EBRAINS, we provide comprehensive data management support and safe long term storage - all free of charge. Additionally, your data can be cited, just like a scientific journal article. Sharing your data may even lead to new funding opportunities. Many funders specifically support projects that are part of the “Open Science” initiative.

No, there is no such thing as insignificant data. Data that is considered insignificant for a given topic, may have great significance for another. By making “insignificant” data publicly available, other researchers may find something interesting that was off-topic for your own purposes.

No, your data will be covered by a Creative Commons license of your choice. There are a variety of licenses available, enabling you to prevent use for specific purposes, e.g. commercial use. 

Yes, if you do not want to share your data before publishing the results in an article, you can publish your dataset with an embargo status. This will make it possible to find information about the data without making the data itself available, and give you a citable DOI.

No, publishing your data does not mean that others can use it however they want. Use of your data will require citation, and by choosing an appropriate Creative Commons licence you decide what others are allowed to do with it. If you still feel worried, you can publish your data under embargo, and in this way delay the date of data release, but still make it possible for others to find the information about the data.