Research Data Repository – Research Data Management

The LUH Research Data Repository is intended for the publication of research data.
Research data are all data that are collected and processed in the course of the scientific work process and form the basis of scientific research results. This includes, for example, measurement data, laboratory values, audiovisual information, texts, survey data, objects from collections or samples. Questionnaires, software and simulations can also be included under the term research data.

For the open access publication of your research results in the form of journal articles, for example, you can use the LUH text repository or the subject-specific repository for science and technology at TIB, among others.
Research data that are not free of third-party rights, such as personal data.

For research data that may not be published, e.g. for legal or contractual reasons, but should be archived, the LUIS archiving service can be used.

All employees and researchers of Leibniz University Hanover as well as institutions affiliated through cooperations

You can find a guide that takes you through all the steps here. (only in German)
Help for filling in the metadata fields (in English) can be found here.

A single file may not be larger than 1 GB.
- If you wish to upload larger files, please contact LUIS at the following email address: support@luis.uni-hannover.de.

The data should comply with the FAIR principles.

This means that it should be provided in a suitable file format.
- An overview of suitable long-term file formats for different types of data such as text, raster graphics, vector graphics, tables etc. can be found here.
Be free of third party rights.
- In the case of personal data, you should consult the LUH Data Protection Unit.
Provide detailed information (metadata) on your research data.
- For assistance look here.
Be published under a licence suitable for re-use.
- We recommend the CC licence CC BY 3.0 DE, specifically for software we recommend the licences MIT, MPL-2.0, Apache 2.0 or GPL-3.0-only.

For technical questions about the LUH Research Data Repository, please contact the LUIS: support@luis.uni-hannover.de
For questions about FAIR data and metadata as well as research data management in general, please contact the Research Data Service Team: forschungsdaten@uni-hannover.de