Canonical pair

IBL vs OpenNeuro

A source-backed comparison of dataset access, modalities, cost signal, license, and codebook path.

Field

IBL

International Brain Laboratory public data

OpenNeuro

Scientific domain

domain

behavioral-neuroscience

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-dataset-page
URL: https://www.internationalbrainlab.com/brainwide-map

neuroscience

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: peer-reviewed-paper
URL: https://elifesciences.org/articles/71774

Primary data modalities

modalities

behavior, Neuropixels electrophysiology, widefield calcium imaging, histology metadata

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-dataset-page
URL: https://www.internationalbrainlab.com/brainwide-map

MRI, fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, PET, behavioral data

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: community-standard
URL: https://bids.neuroimaging.io/

Access tier

access.tier

open

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-documentation
URL: https://docs.internationalbrainlab.org/notebooks_external/data_download.html

open

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-policy
URL: https://docs.openneuro.org/policy/data_management_plans.html

Access timeline

access.timeline

Public sessions can be searched and loaded from the IBL public data server through ONE.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-documentation
URL: https://docs.internationalbrainlab.org/notebooks_external/one_quickstart.html

Published datasets are available on demand over the internet.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-policy
URL: https://docs.openneuro.org/policy/data_management_plans.html

Cost signal

access.cost

No access fee is stated in the official public data documentation.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-documentation
URL: https://docs.internationalbrainlab.org/notebooks_external/one_quickstart.html

Free of charge for published datasets.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-policy
URL: https://docs.openneuro.org/policy/data_management_plans.html

License or terms

access.license

CC BY 4.0 for the Brainwide map data release documentation on Figshare.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-codebook
URL: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

Public Domain for published data and metadata.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-policy
URL: https://docs.openneuro.org/policy/data_management_plans.html

Codebook path

codebook

Brainwide map data release documentation, The Figshare technical paper links to experimental procedures, data processing pipelines, and download instructions for the Brainwide map release.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-codebook
URL: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

BIDS specification and dataset README files, OpenNeuro dataset pages surface README and description.json content, while BIDS defines the required folder, file, and metadata conventions.

Source

Status: Status: verified
Verified: Verified: 2026-04-29
Source type: Type: official-documentation
URL: https://docs.openneuro.org/user_guide.html