The university provides a TSM Backup Service using the Tivoli Storage Manager. Data is automatically replicated for users of ITS Value Storage (except for the Value Storage Lite option). Many researchers choose to use Value Storage Lite as a backup of existing bulk storage in their units or labs.

Deep Blue is the university’s user-contributed repository. Users can deposit their work, access topics of interest, and preserve work for future generations. It is intended to provide lower barriers of access and offer a wide dissemination of information for the user of the university’s intellectual and creative output.

Inter-University Consortium For Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international consortium of approximately 700 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. ICPSR supports data deposit as well as dissemination and search capabilities. The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research manages the ICPSR collections.

The HathiTrust Digital Library is a collaboration of more than thirteen universities. The focus of the partnership is on preserving and providing access to digitized book and journal content from the partner library collections. The collections of the HathiTrust can be accessed through APIs, and users can add their own collections by using the Collection Builder tool.