Research Data Support

To support the rapid and wide dissemination of research during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we are offering Springer Nature authors a 50% discount on our Research Data Support service for primary epidemiology COVID-19 research data.

Follow the link below to get started, selecting the COVID-19 option on submission.

Springer Nature is committed to supporting the global response to emerging outbreaks by enabling fast and direct access to the latest available research, evidence, and data. We believe that data should be open, accessible and reusable. We are a signatory to the consensus statement on sharing research data and findings relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Data makes a difference

Find out how we are supporting authors with COVID-19 research data

Eligibility

This offer applies exclusively to:

Authors submitting to or published in Springer Nature journals
Primary biomedical epidemiological data (excluding for example secondary analysis/modelling of existing data, behavioural data, economic data)
COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 (excluding, for example, other coronaviruses)

Authors must publish their data in line with standard Research Data Support terms and conditions, under one of our available licenses. Additional storage costs will be applicable for datasets over 500GB.

What is Research Data Support?

Research Data Support is a curation service for Springer Nature authors that helps make research data easy to find, cite and understand. We help researchers to:

Organise and share research data in a useful way, advancing discovery for all
Get one-to-one support from one of our data curation experts
Meet funder or institutional requirements on data sharing.

Find out more about the benefits of sharing your research data.

We are providing this service to Springer Nature authors with 50% off for all COVID-19 related datasets.

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COVID-19 datasets

View all Research Data Support assisted COVID-19 datasets on our figshare portal

Using Research Data Support

Using our Research Data Support service is simple, just follow these three steps:

Fill in a 2-minute enquiry form to see if your dataset (collection of files) is eligible for the service.
Please remove personally identifiable or sensitive data before uploading your dataset (our expert team can advise on this if needed).
Upload (drag and drop) your collection of files to our secure online repository, hosted by figshare and select the COVID-19 option on submission.

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