Deposit Record field guide

Access type

Select either:

• Open (freely available)

• Registration required (available only by request, for bona fide researchers)

• Controlled (available only by request, will be referred to appropriate committee)

• Closed (data may not be shared)

Restricted publications are intended only for cases where the dataset necessarily includes confidential or sensitive information. Access to such publications involves a request and approval process for more information see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/researchers/data/accessing-research-data/.

Title

The name your deposit will have within the repository. Searching ‘Titles’ is one of the ways users find data. Only include the name of a particular journal article if you are certain your data will be used exclusively in relation to that article. Otherwise, pick a broader title

Alternative title (Optional)

A secondary title for your deposit. For example, if you’d like to assign a secondary, non-English title

Description

This short text should help secondary users to understand the content and nature of your dataset

Faculty

This will be automatically assigned

Language
(Optional)

(Optional) The primary language used within the dataset

Publisher

This should be left as The University of Bristol

Date to be made publicly available

This field allows you to specify an embargo period, if necessary, and so delay publication until a future date

Identifiers (Repeatable)

If your data already has an identifier (such as a 3rd party DOI or an ISBN) please enter it here

Subjects
(Repeatable)

Keywords which relate to the intellectual content of the data (e.g. ‘biomedicine’, ‘particle physics’), used for searching and retrieval. Keywords should consist of only alphanumeric characters. Hyphen (-), underscore (_) and full stop (.) are also acceptable. Press ‘enter’ to add successive keywords

Data Steward

This will be automatically assigned

Creator
(Optional, Repeatable)

People primarily responsible for the data

Contributor
(Optional, Repeatable)

People with some significant involvement with the data

Referenced by publication 
(Optional, Repeatable)

If the dataset is referenced by another resource (such as via a citation within an academic journal) provide a link to or unique reference such as a DOI for the related publication. This can be added later, after data publication, if necessary. Please contact data-bris@bristol.ac.uk for more information

References publication
(Optional, Repeatable)

If the dataset references another resource (for example, if you have used data collection methods or software described elsewhere and wish to cite these) provide a link to or unique reference such as a DOI for the related publication