Submit your data

If your institution doesn't run a DataBank node, you can submit your data yourself: to the Continental Hub directly, or to a node that accepts contributors, for example one in your country. You choose.

• You decide who may access it. Once published you are the record's steward: you choose public, regional researchers on request, restricted, or an embargo, and you decide every access request. The Hub can't loosen your choice.
• It gets a DataBank accession (AFDSI-…), citable at once, with your name and ORCID iD as its steward.
• A backup steward you name (a supervisor or colleague) takes over if your account ever closes.
• No human-derived data. Remove any human reads before you submit.

To the Continental Hub

Apply once; the Continental Admin approves you, then reviews each submission before it's published.

Log in or create an account to apply. You use your one DataBank account; submitting is a role added to it.

To a node

A node's own operators approve you; you then submit on that node's site with this same account, and your records reach the Hub with that node's sync. You are their steward there too.

Read the submission terms. Other ways to contribute: Contribute data.