The American Psychological Association (APA) is now accepting manuscripts for Archives of Scientific Psychology, which is expecting to publish its first article next year. Gary VendenBos co-editor stated "While Archives isn't psychology's first open-access journal, it is the first to require authors to contribute their full data set to a central, restricted-access data repository." The journal aims to appeal to a dual audience of both scientis

The Denton Declaration: an Open Data Manifesto, is the latest announcement on the growing debate on open data.

The declaration includes:

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) is a research data repository helping accelerate scientific discovery in autism research.

NDAR provides the infrastructure to store, search across, and analyse various types of data. In addition, NDAR provides longitudinal storage of a research participant's information generated by one or more research studies.

In The Conversation on the 26th September 2012, Alex O. Holcombe and Matthew Todd published an open letter to the Australian Research Council on why scientific data should be shared.

The Data Hub describes itself as "the easy way to get, use and share data".

The Data Hub is a community driven catalogue of datasets on the Internet. It uses open-source data cataloguing software CKAN, which provides each dataset record with fields for descriptions, formats, ownership, access and subject areas, among others.

Most of the data indexed is open data, which means it is openly licensed, and free to use.

On the site, you can:

The 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.

With the current global emphasis on sharing research data with the public, you might wonder - what can the public actually do with data? How can they access it, understand it, or apply it? Why might it be of interest to them, or you?

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

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has been recruited by the UK government as part of its move to make all taxpayer-funded academic research from the UK freely available online.