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Storage and Repository Decision Chart
The RCS ShareFile is a storage service available for Carleton faculty, students, and collaborating outside researchers. ShareFile is an excellent resource to be used as a sandbox throughout all stages of the research data lifecycle. Contact us at Dataservices@carleton.ca to discover different options for publishing your data in a repository when the data is ready
More about ShareFile:
- Service is provided and set up by ITS (its.service.desk@carleton.ca)
- Only members of the Carleton community can create a primary account
- Researchers outside of Carleton can set up a secondary account allowing them to contribute to the research project
- Primary account holders will set up permissions to either allow contributors to upload information or to read only
- Review the User Responsibilities for more details
- You are allotted 500 GB of storage space
- Service is hosted at Carleton and all of your research data will be securely stored in Carleton’s data centres
- Data will be replicated and backed up to ensure resiliency
- Any file uploaded to this service will remain until deleted by the user
Visit RCS Sharefile for Research Data to get started
Check out this RCS page for more information on what services they offer or contact ITS.RCS@carleton.ca
