Publishing Your Research

Publishing Your Research#

Materials Commons publishes datasets. Datasets are a subset of the data in your project. A dataset contains additional data about your research data such as tags, description, authors, associated paper(s), funding and other important descriptive information.

Dataset Creation Steps#

  • Navigate to your project

  • Click on “Datasets” in the sidebar

  • Click on “Create Dataset” in the upper right of the card

  • Fill out the dataset details:

    • Authors Management:

      • By default all project members are included in the authors list

      • Reorder authors using drag and drop

      • Add new authors (Materials Commons account not required)

    • Content Selection:

      • Choose Files, Samples, and Computations to include

      • Note: Selecting a Sample or Computation automatically includes associated files

        • To exclude specific files: Go to Files tab and uncheck selected files/directories

Publishing Your Dataset#

  • Select your dataset and click “Publish”

    • Publishing process:

      • Runs in the background

      • Aggregates all files

      • Creates a Globus download location

      • Creates a ZIP file (for datasets under 4GB)

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