Data supporting “Data Sharing Readiness in Academic Institutions” Version 1

To address how the academic landscape for data repository and curation services changed since 2017 Spec Kit for Data Curation (Hudson-Vitale et al., 2017a), we used website content analysis to better understand data repository services in academic research libraries. Of the 124 ARL institutions we chose to focus on academic institutions and therefore excluded 10 civic libraries. For each of the remaining 114 ARL institutions we asked four research questions: Do they support data sharing via data repository services? How many datasets did they hold as of January 2020? What digital repository software platform was in use? How do our results compare with the 2017 SPEC Kit data (Hudson-Vitale et al., 2017b).