Data Services

UT Libraries offers resources and services for finding, using, managing, storing, sharing and all things related to research data. Learn more about our services by visiting our Data and Digital Scholarship Research Guide!

We offer support to researchers in meeting funding agency requirements for public access to research data and data management plans. 

We can assit with locating dataset and statitics to meet your research needs as well as provide resources and support for using data cleaning, analysis, and visualization tools!

UTK is an Institutional Member of the Dryad data repository, a platform that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types. Our institutional membership means that you can deposit datasets in any discipline into Dryad at no cost.

Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data.

"We make it easier to share, find, use, and cite data, and are ready-made for emerging data-sharing requirements."

• Data curation at Dryad – Ensures metadata quality; verifies data are accessible, usable, and licensed for sharing, and supports authors.
• Data publishing at Dryad – Increases discoverability of data, connects data with other research outputs, promotes data citation, and makes data count.
• The Dryad platform – Offers a smooth and easy publishing experience for authors, integrates readily with publisher workflows, runs on open-source software, and may be accessed via open API."

If you have any questions or want to know more about the research data services we offer, please visit our Data and Digital Scholarship Research Guide.

Or contact the Data and Digital Scholarship Department at dataservices@utk.edu.