You can access existing data, contribute your data, or create your own dataverse within the IQSS DVN. You can upload and distribute data, use data from other dataverses in the Network, or define a set of data collections. You also can customize your dataverse with the look and feel of the rest of your web site.
People who might choose to use the IQSS DVN include:
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You can browse or search all published dataverses in the IQSS DVN. You can download study files, or subset and analyze data sets and then download the subsetted or analyzed data. See the Data Users Guide to read how to search, download, subset, and analyze dataverse studies.
Numerous dataverses are available right now, and new data is added to the IQSS DVN all the time. Some existing dataverses include:
You can contribute data to the Henry A Murray Research Archive without creating your own dataverse:
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See the Contributors Guide to read how to upload your studies. You also can create your own dataverse in the IQSS DVN and contribute your data there. See the next page, DVs for Scholars, for information about creating your own dataverse.
You can create your own dataverse in the IQSS DVN, and then publish your research and study files:
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See the Dataverse Admins Guide to read more about how to create and manage your dataverse. On your dataverse homepage, click the link My Options to do all of the following in your dataverse:
Note: You also can use dataverses to publish and manage studies for journal and bookpresses, or to organize data for other groups of users and contributors. See DVs for Journals and Books and DVs for Others for more information.
The Dataverse Network greatly simplifies the task of data citation and data sharing, which increases the scholarly value of articles and the overall impact of the journal.
Suggested guidelines for using a dataverse to host journal articles and their study data are:
To create a dataverse for your journal, go to the IQSS DVN homepage and click Create your own Dataverse.
Your journal can use a dataverse to house its studies. Ask authors to cite their data properly, and ask your copy editor to ensure that this happens. Suggest that the journal's publisher add to their "Instructions to Contributors" a policy paragraph similar to the following:
If you have an article accepted, compile a data set that contains all data and other information necessary to replicate the empirical results in your article. Then cite your data set in your article following the standard. You can create this citation automatically and deposit the data, if you choose, at the [Journal] Dataverse (at the [Journal]'s web site). When necessary to protect the confidentiality of subjects or proprietary information, or for other reasons, you can restrict access to the data through your dataverse, such as through licensing agreements or fixed embargo periods. You cannot restrict access to your metadata, which is the Cataloging Information that describes the existence of your data with a formal citation, and which also is entered at the [Journal] Dataverse.
You can use a dataverse to organize data for any population of contributors, or as a view of existing data in other dataverses. You also can combine your own group's data with links to data in other dataverses. Create your own dataverse in the IQSS DVN now.
See the Dataverse Admins Guide for information about how to create a dataverse. See the Curators Guide to read about how to organize your group's studies and links into collections.
Examples of who might benefit from creating a dataverse include:
At this time, no other DVNs are available for public use. In the near future, we anticipate the release of new DVNs hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (University of North Carolina) and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (University of Michigan). Check here for updates.
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