Making research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, retrievable) and open increases transparency and reproducibility of research.

More about:

• The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship (the original publication about the FAIR Principles)
• FAIR Principles (a compact overview of the FAIR principles by GO FAIR)
• Creative Commons Licenses (suitable licenses for open data)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (the official legal text)
• Research Data Management Support (support for FAIR and Open Data at UU)

Tools:

• Yoda – a research data management service (for UU/UMCU researchers)
• OSF (the Open Science Framework is a free, open platform for sharing your research)
• Zenodo (a general-purpose open-access repository)
• codebook (R package for automatically creating codebooks from metadata encoded in dataset attributes)
• GitHub (actually a source code repository, but can be used for text-based data)

Domain-specific open data repositories:

• European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) (archiving and sharing biomedical research data)
• database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) (archiving and sharing data from research about the interaction of genotype and phenotype in Humans)