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title: How long will Figshare host and retain my public research data for?
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# How long will Figshare host and retain my public research data for?

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- How long will Figshare host and retain my public research data for?

Items will be retained for the lifetime of the repository. Figshare has been working hard to establish a business model that supports sustainability of the research outputs hosted on Figshare. Our publisher model requires an SLA statement guaranteeing 10 years of persistent availability.

**Backed up in multiple institutions around the world.**

Learn more about how data on Figshare is stored [here](https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-is-my-data-stored-is-it-secure/).

**Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)**

As sharing and discoverability is at the core of Figshare we use DataCite DOIs for persistent data citation. DataCite is a widely adopted service providing DOIs for data that also specifies a level of minimum metadata in order to create a new DOI. This metadata is key for persistence and ensures your research remains discoverable and useful to the academic community.