UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 6 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Twenty-one years ago, long before federal agencies began requiring researchers to openly share data, Penn State faculty were voluntarily making their data publicly available.
What began as a small effort to support open scientific data has since evolved into the Penn State Data Commons, a University-wide research data repository and support system that now serves hundreds of faculty members across multiple disciplines.
Today, the Data Commons supports nearly 300 faculty members across nine Penn State colleges and multiple research centers and institutes. In 2025, the Data Commons assisted 70 research projects.
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