Open Data

• Altmetric is a data science company which provides services and tools to its clients to monitor research.  It also tracks published research online. It is part of Digital Science.

• arXiv is from Cornell University and “free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,842,428 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.”

• figshare is a repository “where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.”  It is part of Digital Science.

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is “an international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community”.  It is based at the University of Michigan and receives its funding from government grants and private foundations.

• Jupyter is a non-profit, open-source project, born out of the IPython Project in 2014 as it evolved to support interactive data science and scientific computing across all programming languages. Jupyter will always be 100% open-source software, free for all to use and released under the liberal terms of the modified BSD license.  Jupyter is developed in the open on GitHub, through the consensus of the Jupyter community.

• Re3Data, is a global registry of more than 2.000 research data repositories funded by the German Research Foundation.

Brandon University Library, Faculty Resource Guide on Open Data provides information on Canadian data including FRDR (federated research date repository) initiatives.

Brown University Library, Open Data Guide - provides great overview and tips on using open data before breaking into broad subject area.  Great advice on understanding data file types.

McMaster University Library Guide to Open Resources includes a section on open data and links to McGill University Library's Citing and publishing data research data guide.

One of the best guides on open data is from the University of Texas at Arlington Library. Take a look at the Funder Requirements based upon the 2013 requirements from the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy.  This guide is adapted from the UTA guide.

An overall outstanding Data and Open Scholarship series of guides is from Princeton University.  Take a look at their data types & formats