Funding Agency Data Sharing Requirements
The following are resources to identify data sharing requirements of common funding agencies. If the funding agency you are looking for is not listed below, check out the resources provided by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
NSF
Data Sharing Policies
Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical collections, and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants. The cost of documenting, preparing, publishing, disseminating, and sharing research findings and supporting material are allowable charges against the grant.
Data Management Plan Policies
Proposals must include a document of no more than two pages uploaded under “Data Management Plan” as the supplementary document. Plans must describe how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results, including data types, standards to be used for data and metadata formats, policies for access and sharing, provisions for re-use, and plans for archiving and preservation of access. Identify specific DMP requirements for each NSF directorate.
Public Access to Manuscripts
Requires that either the version of record or the final accepted manuscript in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference proceedings or transactions must be deposited in a public access compliant repository designated by NSF (NSF-PAR Public Access Repository).
NIH
Data Sharing Policies
In NIH’s view, all data should be considered for data sharing. Data should be made as widely and freely available as possible while safeguarding the privacy of participants and protecting confidential and proprietary data.
- Current Guidance: NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
- Future Guidance: NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (effective as of January 25, 2023)
- NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
Data Management Plan Policies
Investigators submitting an extramural proposal for NIH funding are required to include a plan at the time of submission.
- Allowable Costs
- Selecting a Data Repository
- Recommended disciplinary repositories
- Recommended generic repositories
Public Access to Manuscripts
Contact the Data Management team for assistance to make research publications related to your NIH funding available through PubMed Central.
Publisher Data Sharing Requirements
Similar to how Funding Agencies are implementing data sharing requirements, publishers are also developing policies to encourage that data and relevant materials are made easily accessible.
- American Journal of Political Science
- American Sociological Review (under “Ethics”)
- American Geophysical Union’s Publication Data Policy
- Cell
- Nature Research journals
- PLOS ONE
- Psychological Science
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Wiley
- Science
- Springer Nature journals
- Sage
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Data Repositories
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