Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
Odesi is openly available for anyone to search and use. Some data collections are provided as open data (e.g., Public Opinion Polls (POP)), but most datasets will only be accessible to current McMaster users when connected via Odesi - McMaster. Always refer to the licensing terms and conditions for each dataset.
Odesi is a Canadian social science data repository and online exploration and analysis tool. It contains 5,700+ datasets curated by academic libraries in Canada. Provides researchers with access to datasets in a web-based data extraction system, and allows the downloading of data into external statistical analysis packages.
Odesi provides open and enhanced access to a variety of data collections such as Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) public use microdata, historical datasets, and Canadian public opinion polls, including the Gallup Canada, IPSOS Canada, and the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA).
