Overview
The Illinois Data Bank centralizes, preserves, and provides persistent and reliable access to the research data created by affiliates of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, such as its faculty, academic staff, and graduate students. The Research Data Service at the University Library maintains and operates the Illinois Data Bank on behalf of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. The University Library has a long history of successfully supporting the preservation of and access to Illinois research outputs. The Illinois Data Bank operates within a robust policy framework that fully describes the University’s commitment to providing persistent and reliable access to research data.
Access
Illinois Data Bank production site
Illinois Data Bank test site (accessible to library staff)
Contact
https://databank.illinois.edu/contact
Documentation
https://databank.illinois.edu/guides
Policies
https://databank.illinois.edu/policies
Publications and Presentations
Marsolek W, Wright SJ, Luong H, Braxton SM, Carlson J, Lafferty-Hess S (2023) Understanding the value of curation: A survey of researcher perspectives of data curation services from six US institutions. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293534. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293534
Fallaw, Colleen, Genevieve Schmitt, Hoa Luong, Jason Colwell, and Jason Strutz. “Institutional Data Repository Development, a Moving Target.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 51, (2021). https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15821.
Luong, Hoa, Colleen Fallaw, Genevieve Schmitt, Susan Braxton, and Heidi J. Imker. “Responding to Reality: Evolving Curation Practices and Infrastructure at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 10, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1202.
Hetrick, Ashley, Hoa Luong, and Heidi J. Imker. “Illinois Data Bank First Year in Review,” 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/99650.
Braxton, Susan, Colleen Fallaw, Hoa Luong, Daria Orlowska, Ashley Hetrick, Kyle Rimkus, Bethany Anderson, and Heidi J. Imker. “Should We Keep Everything Forever (Reprised)? Preservation Review of Research Data in a Repository as an Art and a Science,” 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/103221.
Fallaw, Colleen, Elise Dunham, Elizabeth Wickes, Dena Strong, Ayla Stein, Qian Zhang, Kyle R. Rimkus, William Ingram, and Heidi J. Imker. “Overly Honest Data Repository Development,” October 25, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/91684.
Source Code
Source code for the Illinois Data Bank is available in the databank repository on Github, along with related components available from the broader Medusa Project.