public-access-policies.md

About

This file serves the collection of information related to public access policies, particularly those issued by research funders.

Funders

Public Health Research Data Forum

• Sharing research data to improve public health: full joint statement by funders of health research
  • Signatories

US

• Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research
• Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (OPEN Government Data Act)
  • commentary from SPARC
• Transparency and Open Government (January 21, 2009)
  • FACT SHEET: Data by the People, for the People — Eight Years of Progress Opening Government Data to Spur Innovation, Opportunity, & Economic Growth
• Memorandum M-13-13, Open Data Policy - Managing Information as an Asset (May 9, 2013)
• White House Directive from 2013 (Holdren memo)
  • OA Week 2016 overview
    • Making Federal Research Results Available to All (exit memo overview, Jan 2017)
  • CENDI overview of Federal Agency plans
  • SPARC overview of responses (regularly updated)
    • Apart from NIH, three agencies so far (AHRQ, NASA, NIST) opted for an approach based on PubMed Central for handling the literature part
    • NASA's "PubSpace" is live as a subset of PMC
  • NIH policies on access and sharing
    • Data Acquisition, Curation, and Use For a Continuously Learning Health System: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care
    • NIH data sharing repositories
  • NSF policy
  • several of these agencies envision a "research data commons"
• Cancer Moonshot
  • report
• Federally Funded Research Results Are Becoming More Open and Accessible
• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
• Data Sharing Policy for the National Institute of Mental Health

UK

• Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework (REF)
  • guidelines
  • commentary
• Open Access at RCUK
• RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy
• Open Access at HEFCE
• Funders must encourage scientists to share
  • Expert Advisory Group on Data Access
• Science, Medicine, and Society: A View From the Wellcome Trust
• DCC analysis of funder policies
• Wellcome (2-17): Our new policy on sharing research data: what it means for you

  • You must make any data, original code or materials that underpin published research findings accessible to other researchers at the time of publication. This long-standing requirement extends across all our funded research – from basic science to clinical trials.

  • In situations where research data is relevant to a current public health emergency, you must share data and other outputs at the earliest opportunity. In line with the 2016 statement on data sharing in public health emergencies, we require you to share quality assured interim and final data as rapidly and widely as possible, irrespective of the timing of journal publication.

  • You should take reasonable steps to ensure that your outputs are discoverable to potential users, are deposited in recognised community repositories wherever these exist, and have persistent identifiers, such as DOIs, to enable their use to be cited and tracked.

Finland

• Open science and research roadmap 2014–2017: "Open science and research leads to surprising discoveries and creative insights"
• openscience.fi

Nederlands

• openscience.nl

EU

• An Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe, May 2017
• New Commission guidance supports EU Member States in transition to Open Science

FP7

• Open Access Pilot

Horizon 2020

• Public Access is mandatory
• Open Data Pilot

FP9?

G8

• G8 Open Data Charter

OECD

• OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding (2007)
• Report on Open Science (2015)
  • "Open science in the information age espouses the notion that knowledge created from public research has public good characteristics that go beyond the concept of the “commons” developed in the 18th century, insofar as ICT-enabled access broadens the possibilities to enrich the commons and extend it to a broader range of users. "

Publishers

• BMC
• BMJ
  • commentary
• Pensoft
• PLOS

Other organizations

• Wikimedia

Research questions

• What are the effects of delays in data sharing?
• Are there any good reasons to withhold the results of clinical trials?

See also

• policies around data management
• policies around patient data
• Magna Carta for Data
• Open science for a knowledge and data-driven economy
• Opening up research data
• Open Licensing Policy Toolkit
• Principle of proportionality in genomic data sharing
• Open Data, Challenges towards implementation, and possible solutions
• Open Data Reveals $791 Million Error in Newly Adopted NYC Budget
• Make all publicly funded research open access: Productivity Commission report (Australia)
• The state of Open Science in the Nordic countries
• Policy harmonization (or the lack thereof)
• Request for pointers to lists of policies
• Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Brandenburg (Open Access Strategy of the German State of Brandenburg; CC0-licensed)