Addiction-Related Datasets Available From The Transparency Project

Last month The Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School, made available a site they've named The Transparency Project. The aim of the site is to establish a "home" for privately-funded datasets collected by multidisciplinary addiction researchers working throughout the world.

Many of the available datasets relate to Internet gambling and were obtained from European online gambling provider bwin Interactive Entertainment AG. Access to such data will be a real boon to researchers investigating Internet gambling as this type of information has previsouly been largely inaccessible. This data is already proving to be fertile ground for researchers as evident by the publications by dataset page.

NOTE: Datasets in the repository are accessible to"registered users." You register to be a user of the Transparency Project by emailing info@thetransparencyproject.org and providing basic information. Once you're successfully registered and have received a password, you can access and download the requested database. It is anticipated that the website will have an automated registration process in the future.