Modern Studies in Management and Organization

Data Repository Guidance

JMSMO mandates the release of datasets accompanying our Data Descriptors, but we do not ourselves host data. Instead, we ask authors to submit datasets to an appropriate public data repository. Data should be submitted to discipline-specific, community-recognized repositories where possible. Where a suitable discipline-specific resource does not exist, data should be submitted to a generalist repository.

Authors must deposit their data to a data repository as part of the manuscript submission process; manuscripts will not otherwise be sent for review. If data have not been deposited to a repository prior to manuscript submission, authors can upload their data to figshare or the Dryad Digital Repository during the submission process. Data may also be deposited to these resources temporarily if the main host repository does not support confidential peer review.

Repositories need to meet our requirements for anonymous peer review, data access, preservation, resource stability, and suitability for use by all researchers with the appropriate types of data.

Data repositories should meet all the following requirements:

• Ensure long-term persistence and preservation of datasets in their published form (minimum of 5 years after publication).
• Provide stable persistent identifiers for submitted datasets (e.g. Datacite DOIs).
• Allow public access to data without barriers, such as logins or paywalls, unless required for sensitive human datasets requiring access registration and/or acceptance of terms such as Data Usage Agreements.
• Support open licenses (CC0 and CC-BY, or their equivalents, are required in most cases to learn more). Exceptions will only be permitted for human-derived data and should be discussed with the editorial team prior to manuscript submission.
• Provide for a confidential review of submitted datasets without the requirement for reviewers to provide identifying information, as well as embargoed data for authors during peer review if required.

Subject-specific repositories that are supported and recognized within their scientific community are strongly encouraged.

Generalist repositories
JMSMO encourages authors to archive data to one of the data-type-specific repositories where possible. Where a data-type-specific repository is not available, the following generalist repositories might be suitable. Generalist repositories may also be appropriate for archiving associated analyses, or experimental-control data, supplementing the primary data in a discipline-specific repository.

The generalist repositories listed below are able to accept data from all researchers, regardless of location or funding source. If your institution has its own generalist data repository this can be used to host your data as long as the repository is able to mint DataCite DOIs, and allows data to be shared under open terms of use (for example the CC0 waiver).

figshare (100 GB free per Scientific Data manuscript)
Open Science Framework  (Free of charge)
Science Data Bank (Free of charge)