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How can I publish data?

Both interdisciplinary and discipline-specific repositories are available for publishing data. The latter offer various advantages and should therefore be preferred: To begin with, subject-specific standards and metadata schemas are better accounted for here. In addition, more specific indexing and search options improve the findability of the data. If they are stored in a subject-specific repository, this also increases visibility within the subject community. You can find the subject-specific repositories relevant to you at the Consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure.

Interdisciplinary repositories include the EU-funded Zenodo, Dryad and Figshare. 

In addition, data can also be published in data supplements of journals. Although this form of data publication is becoming increasingly important, additional archiving options should be used to ensure long-term availability.