  Digital services such as repositories and science gateways have become key
resources for the neuroscience community, but users often have a hard time
orienting themselves in the service landscape to find the best fit for their
particular needs. INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility)
has developed a set of recommendations and associated criteria for choosing or
setting up and running a repository or scientific gateway, intended for the
neuroscience community, with a FAIR neuroscience perspective. These
recommendations have neurosciences as their primary use case but are often
general. Considering the perspectives of researchers and providers of
repositories as well as scientific gateways, the recommendations harmonize and
complement existing work on criteria for repositories and best practices. The
recommendations cover a range of important areas including accessibility,
licensing, community responsibility and technical and financial sustainability
of a service.
