Plan
New public access requirements will significantly impact the ways in which you collect and manage data and how and where you share your research. Understanding new funder requirements as well as standards for data preparation will help you to select a repository for sharing and to author a data management plan at the very start of your research project.
Like open access publications, open data can be published using a variety of platforms, repositories, and methods and there are a variety of ways that you can retain ownership, control reuse, and track citations of your data.
Increasingly, grantors and institutions are requiring scholars to make their data available in order to provide public access to all products of funded research and to increase research transparency and reproducibility.
Read more about evolving public access requirements from federal funders.
Start your research process off on the right foot by developing a plan for end-to-end management of your data. With new access requirements in place, funders are increasingly requiring you to think proactively about the publication and afterlife of your data and to submit a Data Management Plan (DMP) along with your grant applications.