“Zenodo is at the forefront of making data accessible, so it demonstrates how this can be happening. Through this custom meta data, it opens data to many more users. In this world of FAIR data, custom metadata play a very important role because they allow also machines not only to read text but also to understand it.”

Dr Donat Agosti, who manages the Biodiversity Literature Repository on Zenodo

Strengthening Open Science

Did you know that following the release of scientific results, data is rarely shared between researchers?

Often, it is too big or complex to find a home in traditional publication chains, preventing researchers from drawing the full benefit from the results of public research and leading to a duplication of research efforts and a waste of resources.

It is also often very difficult, at times impossible, to interpret the data without access to the code used to perform the analysis which was published. Free and easy access to research results, data and analysis code – Open Science – is the very heart of the scientific process.

Zenodo was created for this very reason – to make all such information available to everyone so that society can benefit from the results of public research. It enables researchers to deposit data sets, software, workflows, reports, and any other research related digital artifacts.

During the pandemic, for example, Zenodo was crucial in responding to the call by the European Commission to facilitate and synchronise global scientific efforts to stopping the pandemic.

Through Zenodo, any researcher can directly access raw and derived data, facilitating and accelerating scientific collaboration, leading to lower research costs, faster research cycles and ultimately avoiding duplicated primary data collection work.

Zenodo is already capable of accommodating the needs of modest data sets, but this is just a fraction of the overall need for data services in the scientific field. We need your help to expand Zenodo’s features and storage capabilities.