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Secondary sources

Definition: Secondary sources of information  are the ones that analyze, describe, interpret, review or restate information found in primary resources or other secondary resources These can be scientific monographs, reviews, reviews, articles in scientific or popular journals etc.

Reference: Clark State Community College Library. Management 1000: Primary, Secondary anf Tertiary Sources. https://lib.clarkstate.edu/c.php?g=573958&p=3957821


Sensitive data

Sensitive data is information that should be protected against unauthorised disclosure because unauthorised access may negatively affect the privacy of an individual, trade and business secrets or even security. In the context of research, sensitive data usually include personally identifiable information (names, date and place of birth, place of living, employment information, etc.), health information,  and other private or confidential data.

Even in case of sensitive data, it is still possible to adhere to FAIR principles and open science by making the metadata freely available, while not enabling public access to the underlying data. These data can be managed through access control mechanisms and anonymisation and pseudonymisation.

Sherpa Romeo

"Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and presents publisher and journal open access policies from around the world; provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis."

URL: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ 

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is data artificially generated by programmatic means. It is commonly based on real data and used in Artificial Intelligence to increase the amount of data used for training purposes. Synthetic data could be used, for instance, instead of (or in addition to) anonymized data about patients and treatments (i.e., clinical data).