Data licences

When sharing your data in a repository, for a example, you can choose to apply a broad licence to your data that allows anyone to do whatever they like with it. Alternatively, you can choose a narrower licence that restricts use to strictly non-commercial activities and requires attribution to the data creator when it is used.

There are two primary sources for data licences:

Creative Commons (CC)
Open Data Commons (ODC)

If you deposit your data in Concordia's Dataverse, the default licence is CC-0, however all the other CC licences are available as well.

Note: Be sure you own the data! You can only publish data that you own or for which you've received permission to share. Flowchart (Australian Research Data Commons)

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Help and resources

Research data management consultations are available for Concordia faculty, students, and staff. Find out more about how librarians on the Library's RDM team can provide guidance. This service is part of Concordia's Institutional Research Data Management Strategy.

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