What is the use of data publication
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There are several distinct ways to make research data available, including:
publishing data as supplemental material associated with a research article, typically with the data files hosted by the publisher of the article
hosting data on a publicly-available website, with files available for download
hosting data in a repository that has been developed to support data publication, e.g. figshare, Dryad, Dataverse, Zenodo. A large number of general and specialty (such as by research topic) data repositories exist.[6]
publishing a data paper about the dataset, which may be published as a preprint, in a journal, or in a data journal that is dedicated to supporting data papers. The data may be hosted by the journal or hosted separately in a data repository.