Sharing Open Data with BossDB

It is increasingly important and common to share datasets with the world when publishing in high-impact scientific journals. Indeed, many journals require that researchers deposit their data in a repository that is open to the public upon publication.

  Account-free data access

BossDB makes it easy to share your data privately with collaborators, and then — with the flip of a switch — to make it public. Public BossDB datasets are available to anyone who has a link to the dataset, and so BossDB meets most journals' requirements for unauthenticated data access.

Witvliet, D., Mulcahy, B., Mitchell, J.K. et al. Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation. Nature 596, 257-261 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03778-8

  Stable identifiers

BossDB guarantees project page and dataset links (https://bossdb.org/project/[ProjectName]) for at least five years, and provides a stable, persistent identifier that you can use in your publication.

Update October 2023: BossDB now also assigns DOIs to all Data Collections. For more information, see our announcement:

  Institution-backed

BossDB is developed and hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, with support from Amazon Web Services.

BossDB is the NIH data repository of record for the BRAIN Initiative for electron microscopy and X-ray microtomography data.

  Prior journal publications hosted on BossDB

BossDB hosts data for papers published in the following journals.

  Licensing

We are making all the material on this website available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public Licence, which is approved by most scientific journals with a public data requirement.

  Additional Information

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If you have a question about hosting open data with BossDB, get in touch at info@bossdb.org.