Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS
Manager, Research & Scholarly Communication Services
sally.gore@umassmed.edu
508-856-1966
Tess Grynoch, MLIS
Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian
tess.grynoch@umassmed.edu
508-856-2467
Leah Honor, MLIS
Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian
leah.honor@umassmed.edu
508-856-2458
Lisa Palmer, MSLS, AHIP
Institutional Repository Librarian
lisa.palmer@umassmed.edu
508-856-4368
Please refer to our guides for specific information about:
"Open data" is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike (from the Open Data Handbook). The Open Data movement began with efforts to improve access to government data (see data.gov). This page focuses on open scientific data: the primary research data published within or alongside research papers.
Check out this Open Data factsheet from SPARC!
There are many options for publicly sharing data sets as a condition of publication, including government-sponsored repositories, disciplinary repositories, third-party repositories, and the UMass Chan institutional repository, eScholarship@UMassChan.
For large datasets, here are selected data repositories for the biological sciences:
eScholarship@UMassChan can serve as a home for research data files that support scholarly publications, including dissertations, theses, and journal articles that must meet requirements for the preservation and dissemination of data.
Benefits of sharing your data through eScholarship@UMassChan:
View this example of a data set housed in eScholarship@UMassChan
Data journals are publications whose purpose is to expose and share research data, and to promote its re-use. Examples of data journals: