Here are two important presentations on the self-archiving of research data -- an important complement to the self-archiving of research articles:
Tony Hey "E-Science and Open Access" http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/ppts/04-Hey.ppt Simon Coles "Dissemination of research data via EPrints" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/coles.ppt http://www.psigate.ac.uk/ebank/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/