Your new academic repository: Zenodo

Stop the press! Do you want to embark on open science? Or just feel like dusting off that data buried in your file drawer and post it somewhere? Maybe you saw the cool kid from the front door lab bragging about "free and open data" and got envious. Whatever. I've got the perfect means especially to you: zenodo.org. It is free, it is open, it is non-profit, it is backed by OpenAIRE and CERN! Cool!

I've made some reviews about free and open repositories for datasets and academic stuff, but I am convinced that Zenodo is the top of all. Read my previous accounts on PeerJ Preprints, F1000research, and Figshare. Each one has strengths and drawbacks. However, a fast comparison shows how Zenodo has superiority in this field: all of them are for-profit, featuring free and paywalled versions, although equally open access. They have very different policies regarding content regulation, and neither is completely transparent about it. Plus, Zenodo features an easy integration with GitHub. Let's chart a comparison between them:

	DOI	Preprint	Postprints	Datasets	Slides Posters	Google Scholar
PeerJ Preprints	+	+	-	+	+	+
F1000Research	+	-	-	-	+	-
Figshare	+	+	+	+	+	+
Zenodo	+	+	+	+	+	+
Slideshare	-	-	-	-	+	-

Figshare and Zenodo are the most complete services, but Zenodo is not-for-profit, backed by EU OpenAIRE megaconsortium, and based upon CERN's mammoth cloud infrastructure. Talk about securely store lots of data. It automatically indexes content in Google Scholar and seamlessly integrates with GitHub. So, I myself decided it to be my prefered alternative academic venue to deposit data, prepublish drafts, publish projects, archive published documents, and the sort of.

An example of my stuff deposited in Zenodo:


Phase IIa (proof of concept) Trial of Valproic Acid with Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for Patients with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma in Childhood and Adolescence - VALQUIRIA
This is a project of a clinical study that was approved by the IRB of my institution and then deposited in Zenodo. It is written in Portuguese.

Retrospective analysis of off-label treatment with beta-blockers in pediatric patients with hemangiomas diagnosed between January and December 2009 at Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin.
Letter of approval from the IRB of another clinical study. The project is in doc format and in Portuguese language.