Streamlining access conditions
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 6:04 am
Under these licences users are free to copy, adapt and redistribute the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided that appropriate credit is given. This licence encourages the widest use possible for the data and doesn’t exclude data being used in publications such as books that are sold but benefit the public good. We now have over 90 datasets in our collection that are available under an open licence – you can find these by entering a search for open data in our Discover catalogue. The latest datasets to be made open include the British Election Study series and a number of key historical and qualitative datasets including The Edwardians.
The Collections Development team has streamlined and standardised the access conditions that apply to new datasets, so that they can easily fit into three broad categories – Open (no registration required), Safeguarded (registration required) or Controlled (secure remote access only). While in special circumstances additional conditions can be negotiated, we japan rcs data do not offer these under the standard terms of our Licence Agreement and work with depositors to avoid unnecessary conditions by ensuring that access conditions are appropriate to the level of detail and / or sensitivity of the data. Where additional conditions are necessary, for example where the data are particularly detailed or sensitive, we also recommend that these are time-limited or reviewed after a specific period of time. When it comes to re-contacting depositors, our new depositor licence agreement places greater onus on the depositor to ensure that their contact details are up-to-date and gives us more freedom to alter access conditions in the event of the depositor becoming uncontactable. This ensures that the access conditions applied to data remain fit for purpose through the passage of time and ensure that these data are accessible for maximum re-use to future generations of data researchers.
The Collections Development team has streamlined and standardised the access conditions that apply to new datasets, so that they can easily fit into three broad categories – Open (no registration required), Safeguarded (registration required) or Controlled (secure remote access only). While in special circumstances additional conditions can be negotiated, we japan rcs data do not offer these under the standard terms of our Licence Agreement and work with depositors to avoid unnecessary conditions by ensuring that access conditions are appropriate to the level of detail and / or sensitivity of the data. Where additional conditions are necessary, for example where the data are particularly detailed or sensitive, we also recommend that these are time-limited or reviewed after a specific period of time. When it comes to re-contacting depositors, our new depositor licence agreement places greater onus on the depositor to ensure that their contact details are up-to-date and gives us more freedom to alter access conditions in the event of the depositor becoming uncontactable. This ensures that the access conditions applied to data remain fit for purpose through the passage of time and ensure that these data are accessible for maximum re-use to future generations of data researchers.