Data Management and Publishing

Meet Funding Requirements

In order to promote open access to research data, many funding agencies now require that research data produced as part of a funded project be made publicly available.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Sharing Policy: Supports the sharing of research data and expects many researchers to include a data sharing plan in their grant proposals.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Data Archiving Policy: “Grantees from all fields will develop and submit specific plans to share materials collected with NSF support, except where this is inappropriate or impossible.”
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide: Includes an expectation that PIs share their research data.
• More examples of Federal Agencies’ data dissemination guidelines are available at the Data Sharing and Replication Information page, maintained by Gary King, director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center.

Researchers can comply with these requirements by depositing their data into one of the many available data repositories. For tips on creating a data sharing plan, see the NIH examples of data sharing plans.

This page was last updated on Thursday, 16-Jul-2009 08:02:27 EDT