Access is available to everyone, anywhere.
Odesi is openly available for anyone to search and use. Some data collections (e.g. Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) etc.) are only available to current McMaster users after being authenticated directly by Odesi data portal. 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).
