On Not Conflating Open Data (OD) With Open Access (OA)

OD is not exception-free author give-away content, whereas OA is. It may be reasonable, when data-gathering is funded, that the funders stipulate how long the data may be held for exclusive data-analysis by the fundee, before it must be made openly accessible. But in general, primary research data -- just like books, software, audio, video, and unrefereed research -- are not amenable to OA mandates because there may be good reasons why their creators do not wish to make them OA, at least not immediately. That is the reason that all OA mandates, whether by funders or universities, are very specifically restricted to refereed research journal publication.