ABSTRACT
Biomedical research usually requires two fundamentals to proceed: experience and resources. Data collection is the step that requires the majority of research resources, which are usually scarce in developing countries. As an alternative to the resource-intensive data collection process, the concept of open data emerged, which is defined as data that may be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone. In a simpler world, after completing a project or a study that might cost hundreds of millions to collect the data for it, the data will be deposited in a storage website (i.e., a repository) so that interested researchers with novel ideas to use this data can access it and do their research with it. In this chapter, we will provide an overview of open data and how to use it, followed by detailing the open data available for use, how to generate ideas from open data and doing literature review for it, how to access open data, an ethical background on open data, and finally a tutorial on using and accessing open data.
