Open Research Data | Open Science - Research & Innovation - European Commission

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What are open research data?

Open research data refers to the data underpinning scientific research results that have no restrictions on their access, enabling anyone to access them through the internet.

For the purposes of this monitor, the indicators are based on a distinction between ‘open data’ generally and ‘open research data,’ with a focus on the latter. That is, while there are many types of potential open data (e.g. government data), the scope is too large for the monitor and difficult to analyse and so we focus specifically on data underlying research publications."