- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is publicly available data?
- Examples of publicly available databases
- Data management for publicly available data
- Licences and data reuse
- Programmatic access
- Sharing your data
- Further learning
- Your feedback
- References
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Licences and data reuse
When it comes to using publicly available data it is important to know what rules there are governing its use.
Licences are used to make it clear how data and literature can be accessed and reused. Creative Commons is a commonly used type of license that can be applied in a number of different ways. In this video, Maria Levchenko, Europe PMC Community Manager, outlines the different types of Creative Commons licences.
The image from the video was created by ASAPbio and can be accessed from their website.
All data resources provide details of their associated licences.
For EMBL-EBI resources, the services page provides an overview using blue licence tags (figure 7):
All resources also provide further explanation of their chosen licence on their website (figure 8).
 For more information about Creative Commons licences and which one may be most suitable for you, try out the Creative Commons License Chooser. |
In this tutorial we have included examples of accessing data resources using a web browser, on the next page we will introduce the concept of programmatic access of data.