RDR

Using collections in the RDR

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If you want to re-use data from an RDR collection, you must comply with the RDR Repository Policy.

Licence or Data Use Agreement

Besides the policy, you must know and comply with the conditions and restrictions of data use specified by the data producer, as specified in a licence or Data Use Agreement (DUA). You can find these in two ways:

  1. On the collection's landing page in the Metadata tab you can find the field Data use agreement. This field links to a licence or DUA;
  2. On the collection's landing page in the Files tab you can download a file called LICENSE.txt.

Note that in the case of Restricted access collections, this document is a concept DUA: it must be filled in and signed by authorized persons representing the data producer and the data user. Only after the DUA has been signed, will you be allowed to access the data and only the signed version of the DUA has a legal status. However, we strongly recommend that you read the concept DUA prior to requesting access to the data collection, to ensure that the conditions and restrictions of re-use suit your research needs.

Citation

If you use a data collection from the RDR in a publication in whatever form (i.e. journal publication, poster or presentation, etc.), you must recognize the contribution of the data producer in accordance with the Repository Policy and scholarly standards. You can find or download (as a BibTex file) the collection's reference on the collection's landing page (e.g. when you follow the collection DOI).

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