MDR is a data repository to collect and store papers, presentation materials, and related materials data to accumulate and release them in a form suitable for the promotion of materials research and materials informatics. Users can search the documents and the data from information (metadata) such as sample, instrument, method, and from the full text of the deposited data, to browse and download them freely. User registration is not required and there is no charge for use.
Before MDR, NIMS operated two repositories as part of the digital library NIMS eSciDoc: PubMan for publications and Imeji for multimedia. MDR inherits and replaces these two services. Most data on the two older services have been migrated into MDR. Some of the data formerly on NIMS Materials Database MatNavi have been migrated into MDR as well.
MDR is one of the services of NIMS's data platform DICE. See also https://dice.nims.go.jp/services/MDR/
re3data.org: Materials Data Repository;
editing status 2025-04-23;
re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R31NJMWR
last accessed: 2025-04-28