Open Data resources
From SPARC:
Open Data is research data that:
- Is freely available on the internet;
- Permits any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any other purpose; and
- Is without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
Open Data typically applies to a range of non-textual materials, including datasets, statistics, transcripts, survey results, and the metadata associated with these objects. The data is, in essence, the factual information that is necessary to replicate and verify research results. Open Data policies usually encompass the notion that machine extraction, manipulation, and meta-analysis of data should be permissible.
- Creative Commons and DataInformation on ways to license data for use by the public
- SPARC Data Sharing Comparison ToolA community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding current and future U.S. federal funder requirements for sharing research articles and research data.
Why Open Data?
Digital Science. (2017). The state of open data report 2017. https://figshare.com/articles/The_State_of_Open_Data_Report_2017/5481187
Find Data Repositories
- Harvard DataverseAn open-source repository for research data, developed by Harvard. Find data sets, or deposit your own data and code here.
- ICPSR This link opens in a new windowICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data.
- NIH Data Sharing RepositoriesThis table currently lists 55 NIH-supported data repositories. Most repositories at the table accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others), but some restrict data submission to only those researchers involved in a specific research network.
- Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions.
- Secure Archive For Environmental Research DataTSAFER-Data is a fully web-based interface to the EPA's Environmental Research Data Archive. Information is presented on SAFER-Data as a "resource" and any related datasets or information objects that are publicly available for download.