Open data policies

• Articles and resources on open data policies
• Funders with open data policies
• Institutions / projects with open data policies
• Journals with open data policies

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a list in progress of information about open data policies, including case studies and guidelines, links to institutional open data policies, such as those at colleges and universities and government organizations, as well as journals with open data policies. These policies set guidelines and rules to allow transparent public access to institutional and organizational information.

• The Freedom of Information Act broke ground for more transparent government information in the United States. "For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city... The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over." --President Obama on the Freedom of Information Act, January 21, 2009

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Open Data Information

• United States Federal Open Government Guide Freedom of Information Act
• Open Government Initiative Model Open Government Policies
• Open Data Guidelines List of Links to Resources on Guidelines
• Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Cambridge University

Institutional Open Data Policies

Government

• United States United States Federal Government

Higher Education

• Yale University Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project

Open Data Initiatives

• City Transit New Website Prompts Transit Agencies to Open Data to the Public
• Big Apps NYC Big Apps 3.0
• City Go Round City Transit Apps
• San Francisco Data Open data on city department activity
• Portland, OR Transit How Google and Portland’s TriMet Set the Standard for Open Transit Data