What We Accept for Deposit
The Repository accepts data and code that are free from ethical and legal constraints from any research discipline. The Repository accepts data associated with a publication as well as datasets that are archived and shared as individual data publications.
Types of materials accepted
Data and code supporting a publication or research project. Materials and documentation that can reproduce research results.
We recommend depositing the materials supporting any findings, summary tables, and visualizations in your publication or research project. These materials can include raw or processed data files used for analysis; code used to process or analyze your data; simulations; survey responses; interview transcripts; researcher observations; geospatial vector files; information computationally derived from public sources, and more. In short, ideally all the files and scripts that would help a researcher reuse your data or reproduce the findings of your publication.
Types of materials not accepted
- Personally identifiable information about participants or Protected Health Information (PII/PHI), and materials not allowed for public release by JHU policies. All PII/PHI data that are shared on our Repository should be de-identified, meeting HIPAA “statistical determination” standards for anonymization, and have proper consent form language stating that participants agreed to data sharing in an open-access repository. Please see JHU IRB expectations for sharing and consent to learn more.
- Supplemental materials, technical reports, annual reports, conference posters, journal articles are generally not accepted. If supplemental materials add necessary context to a deposit, they may be accepted on a case-by-case basis depending on the relevance and size of files.
- For copyright reasons, figures or images that appear in published papers may not be published in JHRDR.
We reserve the right to reject deposits at our discretion should they not meet our collection scope or submission guidelines (improper consent, conflicts with IRB protocol, unclear copyright, data transfer restrictions, missing or inadequate end-user documentation, etc.) If your data are out of scope for JHRDR, we are happy to help you identify an appropriate repository.