Areas of Interest within Funding Policy Requirements
Available Services
- Data Management PlansPrimary Contact: Lee Dotson
- Metadata ServicesPrimary Contact: Sai Deng
Funding agency requirements
In order to promote open access to research data, many funding agencies require that research data produced as part of a funded project be made publicly available and/or have instituted requirements for formal data management plans, including:​
- Funding Agency and Data Management GuidelinesA detailed list of U.S. funding agencies’ data dissemination guidelines from the Funding Agency and Data Management Guidelines (University of Minnesota Libraries)
- National Institutes of Health: Data Sharing PolicySupports the sharing of research data and expects researchers funded at $500,000 or more to include a data sharing plan in their grant proposals.
- National Science Foundation (NSF): Dissemination and Sharing of Research ResultsBeginning January 18, 2011, NSF will require grant proposals to include a supplementary data management plan of no more than 2 pages. This requirement is a new implementation of the long-standing NSF Data Sharing Policy. See Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) Chapter II.C.2.j for more details.
Researchers can comply with these requirements by depositing their data into one of the many available data repositories.
Funding Agencies' Proposal Guides
Funding Policy Requirement Resources
- The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR)Information on the current legislation that would make publicly funded research available to tax payers at no cost.
- Simmons College's Data Repositories WikiA list of repositories and databases for open data.