Bioinformatics : Deposit & Share Research

The Digital Repository Service is a secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community. It expands upon IRis, Northeastern's previous repository platform, which was first developed in 2005.

Anyone is welcome to use the DRS to discover publicly available content, like theses and dissertations or the University Archives and Special Collections Digital Collections.

Members of the Northeastern community are encouraged to sign in to access additional content that may not be publicly available, like photographs from the Office of Marketing and Communications or certain research materials.

There are several ways for DRS users to deposit material in the DRS. Northeastern faculty can sign in and start depositing right away, and departmental staff can contact DRS staff to get permission to start depositing on behalf of their department.

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a public repository that archives and freely distributes comprehensive sets of microarray, next-generation sequencing, and other forms of high-throughput functional genomic data submitted by the scientific community. In addition to data storage, a collection of web-based interfaces and applications are available to help users query and download the studies and gene expression patterns stored in GEO.

You can share your data with GEO if you wish. For more information about why, how, and when to submit your data to GEO, visit GEO's Frequently Asked Questions page. 

A growing number of disciplines are building online repositories where scholars can deposit their preprints, or manuscripts of articles submitted or accepted for publication. Preprint servers permit rapid dissemination of new research output that is openly accessible to all readers. These preprint servers differ from institutional repositories like Northeastern's Digital Repository Service (DRS) in that they accept deposits from scholars at any institution. They're organized around a research discipline rather than a specific research institution.

Nonprofit preprint servers also differ from commercial services like ResearchGate and Academia.edu. The former are organized by nonprofit entities for the benefit of the research communities they server. The latter are social networking sites that have commercial purposes for gathering user data. See "A Social Networking Site Is Not an Open Access Repository" from the University of California for more insight on this distinction.