Efforts shall be made to appropriately present the license to use useful data, along with the scope of disclosing and sharing the data, or its disclosure/sharing flag status to the recipient of the data in order to prevent infringement on the rights of the holder of the copyright of the data. In a case where a collaborative research agreement or a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) has been concluded, a license to use useful data shall be sought according to such an agreement.
To determine the status of data use without identifying recipients, it is necessary to ask the receivers to provide their information (such as the name and affiliation of a receiver), together with IP address and other records before downloading the data, in recognition of its being personal information. When the data is to be used as secondary-use results in research data, the license to use the useful data requires the requesting user to specify that they will provide information identifying the data providing source in the body of any published manuscript or to otherwise acknowledge the user’s research paper.
In preparing a license to use useful data, consideration should be given—such as including a provision to request that identifiers for references to source data or the author of the data should be used in the research paper—so that the readers of the research paper can refer to reference source data.
We request that researchers who use data from the CBS repository system (published or unpublished) in presentations and publications cite and acknowledge the CBS repository system and data production laboratory(s) for referenced dataset(s).
The CBS repository data (a.k.a. research data), tools, and resources are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
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Under this license external data users may freely download, analyze and publish results based on any open-access data and tools as soon as they are released, provided they give appropriate credit, a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This applies to all open-access datasets generated by individual CBS members, regardless of type or size.
Alternatively, computer programs may be released under an open-source license approved by the Open Source Initiative (https://opensource.org/licenses). External users are responsible for verifying the nature and terms of the license before using or distributing a program.
Researchers using unpublished data are encouraged to contact the data producers to discuss possible coordinated publications; however, this is optional.
If the data that researchers intended to use are not linked to any journal publication, they are encouraged to contact the data producers to correctly understand the procedures of how these data have been obtained.