Research Data Management and Sharing: Data Availability Statements

A guide for researchers on how to manage and share the data they generate.

Data Availability Statements

Data availability statements tell the reader of an article where accompanying data can be found, if there are legal or ethical restrictions on public access, and if there are restrictions, how researchers may request access. If applicable, links to the data sets will be included in this statement.

These statements are important for:

Data validation
Reproducibility and reuse of information
Preservation of data
Citation and increasing visibility and recognition of authors and research

Sources: PLOS ONE [Internet]. San Francisco CA: PLOS; c2022. Data availability. Available from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data-availability

Taylor & Francis [Internet]. London UK: Informa UK Limited; c2022. Writing a data availability statement. Available from https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing/share-your-data/data-availability-statements/

PLOS: Data Availability
The data availability requirements for all PLOS journals, which include the submission of a Data Availability Statement along with the article manuscript.
Taylor & Francis: Writing a Data Availability Statement
Taylor & Francis's data availability requirements.
Springer Nature: Data Availability Statements
Springer Nature's requirements for data availability statements.
Elsevier: The Data Availability Statement
A blog post on data availability statements by Elsevier.