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Skip to Main ContentReusing Existing Data
If you consider using secondary data in your research, it will also need to be outlined in your Data Management Plan.
Secondary data are intellectual property belonging to another party, so they may only be used with that party's permission and subject to any terms specified by the provider.
You will also need to consider issues of data management, as you would for primary data, such as:
It is recommended that as part of your data management planning you:
Why reuse existing data
For example, because it:
How to find existing research data?
Finding research data can prove challenging given the amount of data that is currently available and the diversity of possible data sources and formats.
Research data that are shared following the FAIR principles (with a persistent identifier and rich metadata online in a searchable resource) are more easily findable than data published on personal websites or data included as supplementary material to a journal article. Datasets that follow FAIR principles usually published in Government and Subject Data Repositories.
For more information refer to the 'Find Open Datasets' guide.