Research Data
The NSERC Position
https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspxThe Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recognize the importance of research data planning and sharing.
NSERC recommends that a data management plan (DMP) be submitted along with the grant application, but does dot require it.
- Digital Research Infrastructure (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
The CIHR Position
"Recipients of CIHR funding are required to adhere with the following responsibilities:
- Deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data into the appropriate public database (e.g. gene sequences deposited in GenBank) immediately upon publication of research results. Please refer to the Annex for examples of research outputs and the corresponding publicly accessible repository or database.
- Retain original data sets for a minimum of five years after the end of the grant (or longer if other policies apply).This applies to all data, whether published or not. The grant recipient's institution and research ethics board may have additional policies and practices regarding the preservation, retention, and protection of research data that must be respected."
Publishers' Policies and Requirements
Some of the most important publishers have research data management-related requirements or policies.
- PLOS"When submitting a manuscript online, authors must provide a Data Availability Statement describing compliance with PLOS's policy."
- Elsevier"Research data should be made available free of charge to all researchers wherever possible and with minimal reuse restrictions."
- The Royal Society"It is a condition of publication that authors make available the data, code and research materials supporting the results in the article."
- Science"The Science Journals generally require all data underlying the results in published papers to be publicly and immediately available."
- Wiley"The sharing of data enables others to reuse experimental results and supports the creation of new work built on previous findings, improving the efficiencies of the research process and supporting the critical goals of transparency and reproducibility."
- Springer Nature"We want to enable all of our authors and journals to publish the best research, which includes achieving community best practices in the sharing and archiving of research data."
