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Repository of the Week - British Oceanographic Data Centre

BODC.jpgThe British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a United Kingdom national facility designed to hold, manage and distribute data concerning the marine environment. Data holdings include biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, containing measurements of nearly 22,000 different variables.

Repository of the Week - The Atlas of Living Australia

AtlasLivingAustralia.jpgThe Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.

The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

Poe_Coliseum.jpgThe Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection is a digital goldmine for Poe enthusiasts, students and researchers looking for primary sources, and writers and artists who want to dig deeper into Poe's life and work and see original, hand-w

Repository of the Week: the Australian National Corpus

AustNatCorpus.jpgThe Australian National Corpus - AusNC - is a discovery service that collates and provides access to various examples of Australian English Text. Text is sourced from published and unpublished works, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials.

Repository of the Week: The Global Open Access Portal

GOAP.JPGThe Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

NCBI - Meeting the challenge

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The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is supportive of open data and sharing data to further collaboration and research in the biosciences.

Out of England

dcc.jpgDespite the inevitable funding cuts that austerity budgets bring, it's really not a bad time to be a UK researcher - lots of organisations want to help you manage and share your data.

Meeting expectations

sherpaj.jpg Many grant-making bodies expect the peer-reviewed outputs of research they fund to be made freely available, usually within a given time frame. This is their way of ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the research they fund.

Data Repository of the Week - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Data Archive (ATSIDA)

atsida banner.JPGATSIDA captures and shares the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' voices. The repository's vision is to bring together datasets, information and electronic resources of long term significance for research relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.