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Research Data Management and Sharing: Open Data

A guide for researchers on how to manage and share the data they generate.

Books on Open Data

Open Data

What is open data?

Open data is the idea that some types of data (e.g. governmental data and publicly-funded research that results in data) should be freely available to all without copyright or other usage restrictions.

Open data comes in many forms, including statistics, genomes, images, and medical data.

 

Source: Open Knowledge Foundation [Internet]. Open data handbook. London: Open Knowledge Foundation; [date unknown]. Available from: https://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/ Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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