Many of the datasets which are housed within TriUniversity Data Resources are subject to licencing agreements.

As a rule, agreements stipulate that the data may be used by current students, faculty and staff of the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University for academic and personal research only. Any use of these data for commercial applications or contract purposes will violate our licences. Use by members of the community outside of these three institutions could also violate our licences (please contact staff at any of the three Centres for more information).

Some of the data may also be restricted to use by an individual university within the TriUniversities. This would be a result of single ownership  by that member institution of a specific data set which is governed by a limited licencing agreement.

In short, if you are currently a member of one of the three University communities (Student, Staff or Faculty), you may use the data available through the TriUniversity Data Resources for NON-COMMERCIAL applications such as teaching and academic research. If you are interested in our holdings, but are not a member of these University communities, we may be able to help you contact the appropriate organizations to arrange purchasing of the data for your own use.

For more information, please feel free to contact any of member of  TriUniversity Data Resources for details by clicking on the following  CONTACT US link.

LINKS TO LICENCE AGREEMENTS

Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) Agreement- text
ICPSR
SourceOECD
United Nations