Murray archive

Depositing Data with The Murray Archive 

The Murray Research Archive accepts digitized and de-identified (for human subject studies) social science data through our data upload interface on this website.
Depositing and archiving data provides many benefits to individual researchers as well as to the scientific community. It preserves the data beyond the life of your project and makes your data available for new scientific inquiry. Specifically:

1. Your data may be reanalyzed to explore questions other than those of interest to you and your collaborators, thus promoting new research and making better use of the data.
2. Your study may be used as baseline data for replication studies.
3. Your study may be used in conjunction with other studies of similar design to create a more diverse sample or to provide a historical perspective on a given phenomenon.
4. Your study may be a candidate for a follow-up study.
5. Your study may facilitate exploratory research, allowing a researcher to refine research questions, to assess the best means for addressing those questions, and to develop new research instruments or coding schemes.

Increasingly, archiving data is not just an option, but a requirement. New federal guidelines often require that information gathered with federal funds be made accessible to the scientific community. By archiving your data, you are fulfilling this requirement without assuming the time-consuming responsibilities of screening data users and answering questions from secondary data users.

To deposit data use our new Dataverse Network System Interface Interface.