Research Guides: Data Literacy: Data Sharing Policies

Data Management and Sharing Policies of Federal Agencies

NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy - On October 29, 2020, NIH issued the New Policy for Data Management and Sharing. The news release can be viewed at New https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html. Elements of a data management and sharing plan are listed at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-014.html.

The new policy became effective for applications for receipt dates on/after January 25, 2023.

Useful websites on the NIH DMSP:

NSF Data Sharing Policy (https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp) - 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. Grantees are expected to encourage and facilitate such sharing.

Browse Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency (http://datasharing.sparcopen.org/data) - This community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding both current and future U.S. federal funder research data sharing policies is a joint project of SPARC & Johns Hopkins University Libraries. Click the icons on the page to select up to three agencies to view or compare. The full data set can be downloaded.

Data Sharing Policy - BMJ (https://authors.bmj.com/policies/data-sharing/) - BMJ has three tiers of policies on data sharing. Information about what policy each BMJ Journal adopts can be found on this page - https://authors.bmj.com/policies/journal-data-sharing-policy/.

Data Availability Policy - PLOS (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/data-availability) - PLOS journals require authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction at the time of publication. When specific legal or ethical requirements prohibit public sharing of a dataset, authors must indicate how researchers may obtain access to the data. When submitting a manuscript, authors must provide a Data Availability Statement describing compliance with PLOS's policy. If the article is accepted for publication, the data availability statement will be published as part of the accepted article.

Data Sharing Policies - Wiley (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/data-sharing-citation/data-sharing-policy.html) - Wiley encourage authors of articles published in its journals to share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. Various standardized data sharing policy categories are listed.

Data Sharing Policies - Taylor & Francis (https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/understanding-our-data-sharing-policies/) - From 2018, Taylor & Francis introduced policies on data sharing. The basic data sharing policy, which applies across many of its journals, encourages authors to deposit data in a suitable repository, cite it, and include a data availability statement explaining where others can access the data. Check the Instructions for Authors for the journal to find out what data policy applies and check check if the funder has a policy.

Research Data Policies - Springer Nature (https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/research-data-policy) - Springer Nature provides a set of research data policies that can be adopted by journals.