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h1. Publishing research data

Research data can be published on the internet through:

* generic web archives (e.g. "archive.org":http://archive.org)

* research data sites (e.g. "figshare":http://figshare.com/)

* more general open access research hosts (e.g. "f1000 Research":http://f1000research.com/about/)

* thematic repositories dedicated to a specific discipline / subject area - sadly there is no sign of an appropriate repository for digital music and audio research

* institutional repositories dedicated to research from a specific organisation (e.g. QMUL have "a repository":https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/jspui/ through which "Green open access":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access copies of papers by QM research staff can be published).

Within the Centre for Digital Music, we now have a "research data repository":http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/rdr/ for publishing reserach data outputs from the group.

h2. Journals

Of the journals most commonly asssociated with C4DM outputs, three allow the addition of supplemental materials when publishing a paper:

* The online "Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)":http://asadl.org/jasa/ is published through the "American Institute of Physics":http://www.aip.org and allows authors to submit "supplementary materials":http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html with journal papers. However, note that the JASA transfer of copyright includes *all* material to be published. More positively, the author can immediately publish the article on their own web-site (with a citation, link to the ASA version, and description of any differences) and, 6 months after ASA publication, the author's institution can republish the article as published with appropriate citations. ["Sherpa/Romeo":http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0001-4966/]

* "Computer Music Journal (CMJ)":http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/comj is published by MIT Press. Again, "supplementary materials":http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/comj can be published with journal articles. Non-commercial publication of the article is allowed on both the author's and the author's institution's web-sites after the appropriate "embargo period":http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/policies/authorposting (6 months at the time of writing this). ??But are supplements published online?? ["Sherpa/Romeo":http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0148-9267/]

* The "IEEE Signal Processing Society":http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org publish the "IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing":http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10376 and will publish "??multimedia files (audio, images, video) and Matlab code??":http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/taslp/taslp-author-information/ ["Sherpa/Romeo":http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1558-7916/]

The "Journal of the Audio Engineering Society":http://www.aes.org/journal/ doesn't currently support data attachments for papers. ["Sherpa/Romeo":http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1549-4950/]

h2. Misc. Other Repositories

The "Digital Curation Centre (DCC)":http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ have a (very short) "list of repositories":http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/repositories .

Repositories using DSpace can be registered on the DSpace web-site, for inclusion in the list of "Who's using DSpace ?":http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace .

Within the University of London, the "School of Advanced Study":http://sas.ac.uk/ has a "repository":http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/ of humanities-related items.

"University of the Arts London":http://arts.ac.uk/ have an online "repository":http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/

"Edina":http://edina.ac.uk/ provides a national data centre

bq. EDINA is a UK national academic data centre, designated by JISC on behalf of UK funding bodies to support the activity of universities, colleges and research institutes in the UK, by delivering access to a range of online data services through a UK academic infrastructure, as well as supporting knowledge exchange and ICT capacity building, nationally and internationally.

Services hosted at EDINA include:

* JISC "Mediahub":http://www.jiscmediahub.ac.uk

* OpenDepot open access to journal papers

* Mapping data