Data Management Toolkit @ UNH

"Open science is the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society."

By Andreas E. Neuhold (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

See also our Research Guides on Open Access and Open Educational Resources. 

"Open Data are online, free of cost, accessible data that can be used, reused and distributed provided that the data source is attributed and shared alike."

Open Repositories

• Data Portals - A Comprehensive List of Open Data Portals from Around the World http://dataportals.org/
• OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/
• OpenICPSR https://www.openicpsr.org/

Open Government Data

• Australia http://data.gov.au/
• Canada http://data.gc.ca/eng
• EU http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/
• Japan http://www.data.go.jp/
• USA https://www.data.gov/

Open Data Licensing

• Open Data Commons - As Creative Commons does for other types of content, the Open Data Commons provides licenses for making data open to others.

Here are a couple of resources that will help you begin to learn more about open science and open data:

• Open Data Handbook
• "Open Data" page on the Stellenbosch University Library Wiki
• The OpenScience Project