The Hive is a component of a suite of services provided by the J. Willard Marriott Library designed to broadly disseminate the intellectual contributions in research, teaching and creativity made by the University of Utah community and to ensure its longevity. Here you will find information on preparing, uploading and depositing your data.
The Hive is a publicly-accessible repository for research data generated by University of Utah researchers, students, and staff. It is maintained by the Marriott Library IT and Digital Collections. Data librarians at both the Marriott Library and the Eccles Health Science Library are involved to assist in the submission of datasets.
The Hive is a repository for datasets and associated documentation. Uspace is for publications including journal publications, posters, technical reports, thesis and dissertations.
No, sorry. The Hive is for the finalized data resulting from research. See the library guide Data Storage for Research Activities to learn about the options the campus supports.
What did you say in your grant’s data management/sharing plan? The data resulting from research conducted at the U and funded by federal agencies/foundations requiring a data management/sharing plan should be deposited in the data repository indicated in the grant application. If you would prefer to deposit it in The Hive, then please contact the relevant program manager about the change.
If a data management/sharing plan was not required or a specific data repository was not indicated, then consider a discipline-specific data repository for your data. Your data will have greater visibility to the researchers interested in your work. They can reuse your data and cite it in the same way they would cite your publications. See the library guide Repositories for Research Data for additional information or ask data-management-services@lists.utah.edu for assistance.
If an appropriate discipline-specific data repository is not yet available, then The Hive would be the best place for your data because:
If there is a discipline specific data repository available for your data, then this would be the preferred repository. Your data will have greater visibility to the researchers interested in your work. They can reuse your data and cite it in the same way they would cite your publications. See the library guide Repositories for Research Data for additional information or ask data-management-services@lists.utah.edu for assistance.
If an appropriate discipline-specific data repository is not yet available, then The Hive would be the best place for your data because:
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about data or information about information.
For submissions to The Hive, we will assist you in answering a list of questions about your dataset. This list of questions and their corresponding answers is the metadata for your submission. The metadata plus the DOI enables search engines to locate your data.
An embargo period is a length of time when author, publisher, or other party wishes to restrict access to an object. Typically, the author submits a dataset to the repository, but only the metadata will be made openly accessible during the embargo period. Once the embargo period expires, the full dataset download is released to the open web. Embargo periods vary between a few months to a few years. DOIs remain valid throughout the process.
Funding agencies allow for data to be embargoed. Check with your agency to determine the length of time and when the embargo is initiated.
The Hive uses Creative Commons licenses to facilitate sharing and reuse of research data. It’s important that data have clear rights attached to it so future users know what they can and can’t do with data they find in The Hive. Our default license is a Creative Commons license that requires future users to give attribution to the data creator and does not allow the data to be used for commercial purposes (“Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International” License or CC BY-NC 4.0), but you may choose from a limited amount of other Creative Commons licenses that might better suit your needs.
For additional information refer to the Creative Commons website.
The Hive is intended to be a permanent scholarly record, therefore removing content from public viewing is strongly discouraged. Don’t forget it is linked to a publication.
There may be circumstances when it is necessary for authors or The Hive administrators to remove/update content in the repository. If this happens, then a citation to the removed content will remain. The authors will be notified before removal of any content. Authors wishing to remove or update their content should contact us at data-management-services@lists.utah.edu.