Cambium shares the datasets underpinning our discoveries, facilitating the growth of knowledge through their availability for reuse. Based at the University of Oxford, Cambium publishes datasets under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license, lists externally-held datasets we produce, and also serves as a metadata directory for datasets that cannot be made publicly accessible.
Data set classes on this platform include:
- Recordings of brain activity from humans and rodents
- Scripts and code used for analysis of data
- Digital micrographs of brain tissue
- Code for modelling of neuronal networks
- Printable 3D models and microcontroller code
All downloads require making an account; the primary reason for this is to enable us to monitor downloads of datasets which allows us to report this to funding bodies.
All downloads from this site require registering for an account; the primary reason for this is to enable us to monitor downloads of datasets which allows us to report this to funding bodies. There is no approval process for accounts, so there are no delays after confirming the email address given during registration.
Cambium also lists all our externally-held and published datasets.
The majority of downloads are available to all registered users, upon agreeing to the terms and conditions, which are specific to each dataset. We may also list datasets that require approval for download access. If this is the case, the reasoning for this decision will be described on the dataset page, as well as the conditions that have to be met before access will be granted.
Datasets on this site are licensed under an number of different terms, please check the full terms linked from the individual dataset pages. To maximise the potential reuse of our data, our most frequently used licence is Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
If you would like to license a dataset under different terms, please contact us; for example if you plan to make a commercial-use derivative of a dataset that you would like to license with more restrictive terms, which is not compatible with the Share Alike clause.
We support UKRI's policy on making research data as open as possible, and the Concordat on Open Research Data.
Our Sharing Policy includes processes for requests for data sharing.
We will ensure that DOIs we create are persistent. Beyond the life of Cambium, DOIs that resolve here will be changed to point to new repositories that we will move datasets to.
Although the datasets on this site are released under various terms, they all require clear attribution of credit when reused.
We require that the advice given by the Digital Curation Centre for citing datasets is followed. A citation should include at least the following information:
Creators [Authors], year of publication of the dataset, title of the dataset, publisher of the dataset, and an identifier [in the form of a DOI if one is allocated, or the full URL to the dataset page on this site if not].
As well as citing the dataset, please include at least the DOI in the 'Data Accessibility Statement' of the article.
cambium
nounˈkambɪəm
(botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
- wiktionary
cambium, an Exchange, or Place where Merchants meet.
- John Kersey, Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum, 1708
'Cambium', being a growing layer surrounding the main supportive core wood in trees, was chosen as a concept complementary to our 'CoRE' (MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Restorative Neural Dynamics). The older meaning of a place of exchange fits with the remit of sharing our data.
Any questions or comments concerning the Data Sharing Platform can be addressed to Ben Micklem, Research Support Manager, at ben.micklem@bndu.ox.ac.uk.
