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Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Open Access Data Sources

Guide for student and faculty authors to understand scholarly publishing, open access, and retaining copyright. Several content boxes in this guide were used with permission from Boston College.

Open Data Defined

Open Data is data made available without restriction for re-use, with or without attribution, depending upon the host requirements.

Broader Data Repositories Listings

Data Management Guide

The Boston College Libraries have a guide on Data Management. This guide is intended to support researchers who want to effectively manage their data. It is intended to help researchers to understand newer requirements from grant funding agencies for managing research data and the research data life-cycle.

Natural Science Data Repositories

Here you'll find a small selection of open data repositories in the sciences.   Many more exist.  For more extensive lists, see the links, below.

Social Sciences Data Repositories