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In 2012 re3data.org – the Registry of Research Data Repositories went online with 23 entries. Three years later the registry provides researchers, funding organizations, libraries and publishers with over 1,200 listed research data repositories from all over the world making it the largest and most comprehensive online catalog of research data repositories on the web. re3data.org provides detailed information about research data repositories, and its distinctive icons help researchers easily identify relevant repositories for accessing and depositing data sets. Funders like the European Commission and research institutions like the University of Bielefeld recommend the use of re3data.org in their guidelines and policies. Project partners in re3data.org are the Library and Information Services department (LIS) of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the Computer and Media Service at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Purdue University Libraries and the KIT Library at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). re3data.org will be included in DataCite’s suite of services by the end of 2015. The poster describes the current status and the future plans of re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories.