The Re3data.org:Reservoir off Ojpem Access to research data

摘要

Open data and openness is a phenomenal paradigm shift in the knowledge society. The purpose of the present paper is to identify ihe open data repositories especially re3data.org. The authors used re3data.org registry as ihe source for ihe present study. Re3data. org is a registiy which indexes the data repositories, i.e. mainly open data repositories. There were a total of 2327 repositories found during the study. The results of the study indicate that the data repositories consist the research daialargely on Science and lechnology discipline; The European and Noiih Ameiican couniiies are ihe major contributois to the data repositories; the repositories indexed in re3data use varieiy of software; the daia sets are mainly available in English language and the Dublin core metadata standard is widely used by the research data repositories.