Research data policy

Who can use Research Data Support

Springer Nature Research Data Support is available to any researcher who would like help to organise and share the research data that support their published research.

Authors who have already published their research

Research Data Support is available to all published researchers, independent of where their research was published or in what format it was published (including books, journal articles, monographs and pre-prints). The service accepts data related to research published by Springer Nature or by other publishers.

Your data will be checked and improved by our Research Data Editors and the final published dataset will link to your published research.

To access the service, please complete this form and upload your data.

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Authors in the process of submitting a manuscript

If you are an author in the process of submitting a manuscript to participating Springer Nature journals, you will be able to access Research Data Support through the manuscript submission system. A list of the journals which make the service available to authors is available here.

If you have an article in process at a Springer Nature journal that does not currently offer this service you can find out if we can accept your data by completing this form and uploading your data.

If you want to share data associated with an article you’ve already published with Springer Nature, please access the service here.

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Institutions and funding agencies

We also offer Research Data Support and additional services for institutions, funding agencies, and other partners. If you would like more information on the services offered, please visit our institutional support pages or contact our Institutional Engagement team directly.