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STEM Data Repositories and Data Sets

Guide to open data repositories in STEM fields, and to finding open data and data sets

What is Open Data?

Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

What is Open Data? - Open Data Handbook
SPARC - Open Data
Information including fact sheets and SPARC's work on government policies supporting Open Data.
UMKC Research Guide - Creative Commons for Faculty & Student Writers
What a difference a data repository makes: Six ways depositing your data maximizes the impact of your science
From the PLOS Blog, October 2021.

STEM Data Repositories and Data Sets

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What is Open Data?

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