Equipment data
Search across all published UK research equipment databases through one aggregation portal.
The equipment data service harvests and aggregates a range of university and research facility equipment catalogues to improve the discovery and visibility of research assets, to introduce the ability to cite and track the assets, and to create a market intelligence data resource to enable efficiencies for the sector.
Benefits
- Enhances data visibility and discovery to showcase your assets
- Supports sharing and collaboration
- Provides the ability to assign DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for equipment which will enable citation and tracking of assets related to equipment. DOIs for equipment also supports reproducibility
- Adds value to the data and explore the potential of creating a national market intelligence dataset
- Meets funder compliance
How can my institution contribute?
UK Research and Innovation's terms and conditions of grant for research projects requires “all new equipment purchased over £138,000 to be registered on the equipment data national database”. However, the platform is not limited to UKRI-funded research infrastructure assets, and we welcome data for any research assets of any value from any organisation.
The service has a new data model and a data management platform that allow users to manage their records, assign DOIs and publish their equipment data. This can be done by file upload, manual data entry or via an API integration (Pure and Kit-Catalogue).
New institutions
Find out how to share information about your institution’s equipment. If you have any questions, please contact our helpdesk (help@jisc.ac.uk).
Institutions already contributing data
If you are already supplying data to the service, as part of the recent upgrade, you will need to accept our updated terms and conditions, format your existing data with the new data model and get access to the data management system to manage your data.
Equipment data was originally developed by the University of Southampton with funding from EPSRC, in partnership with Jisc. The service is now operated by Jisc.