Purpose

In the present era, research data is a concern for researchers, as they are trying to find new ways to communicate their research findings and conclusions to other researchers in order to increase visibility and credibility. BRICS nations are fast emerging economies and contribute significantly in research output. This study makes an effort to analyze and explore the role of BRICS nations towards open access research data repository registered with Registry of Research Data Repositories.

Design/methodology/approach

The data were gathered from re3data repository, and the search was limited to BRICS nations. The data were further analyzed and tabulated as per set parameters, namely, country-wise distribution, types of contents, subject coverage and language diversity.

Findings

The findings depict that in terms of strength, India has the highest number of data repositories, thereby achieved the first rank among BRICS nations, and South Africa has the least number of data repositories, whereas in terms of content type and subject coverage, India again is leading among BRICS nations. The English language is used by repositories as the main language of the interface.

Practical implications

The study helps to understand the development of research data repositories by BRICS nations. The study is further beneficial to researchers, as Registry of Research Data Repository provides a single platform to access repositories from various disciplines. Readily available data saves time, money and efforts of researchers and helps the researcher in completing their research activity in a very short span of time.

Originality/value

The paper has investigated open access data repositories of BRICS nation that has not been attempted earlier. This gives readers comprehensive overview of research data repositories developed in fast emerging economies of the global. The paper can be very helpful for information managers, OA promoters and education and research policy makers to devise plans and policy bearing in mind the evolving research channels in emerging economies.

中文翻译：

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金砖国家开发的开放存取研究数据库研究

目的

在当今时代，研究数据是研究人员关心的问题，因为他们正试图寻找新的方法将他们的研究结果和结论传达给其他研究人员，以提高知名度和可信度。金砖国家是快速发展的经济体，在研究产出方面贡献巨大。本研究旨在分析和探索金砖国家在研究数据存储库注册处注册的开放获取研究数据存储库方面的作用。

设计/方法/方法

数据来自 re3data 存储库，搜索仅限于金砖国家。根据设定的参数，即国家分布、内容类型、主题覆盖范围和语言多样性，对数据进行了进一步分析和制表。

发现

调查结果显示，就实力而言，印度拥有最多的数据库，从而在金砖国家中排名第一，南非拥有最少的数据库，而在内容类型和主题覆盖方面，印度再次在金砖国家中处于领先地位。存储库使用英语作为界面的主要语言。

实际影响

该研究有助于了解金砖国家研究数据存储库的发展。该研究进一步有益于研究人员，因为研究数据存储库注册表提供了一个单一平台来访问各个学科的存储库。随时可用的数据可以节省研究人员的时间、金钱和精力，并帮助研究人员在很短的时间内完成他们的研究活动。

原创性/价值

本文调查了金砖国家以前没有尝试过的开放存取数据存储库。这让读者全面了解在全球快速新兴经济体中开发的研究数据存储库。这篇论文对于信息管理者、开放获取推动者以及教育和研究政策制定者在制定计划和政策时考虑到新兴经济体不断发展的研究渠道非常有帮助。