Data Sharing/Management Plan
Our boilerplates and sample text for selected application sections may be used as a starting point for your applications, and should be modified to meet sponsor's requirements and to align with your proposed research plan.
Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of research results into knowledge, products, and procedures to improve human health. Responsive data sharing/management plans will present details driven by the specific project being proposed.
Investigators are encouraged to read NIH data sharing plan examples, whether or not your application is to the NIH.
NIH Data Sharing Policy
New NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS) effective on January 25, 2023
The DMS Policy applies to all NIH research, funded or conducted in whole or in part by NIH, that results in the generation of scientific data. Note that the DMS Policy does not apply to research and other activities that do not generate scientific data, for example: research training, fellowships, infrastructure development, and non-research activities. See Research Covered Under the Data Management & Sharing Policy for more details.
DMS Plans should describe how data will be managed and appropriately shared. See Writing a Data Management & Sharing Plan for details, sample Plans, and an optional format page which includes six elements recommended to be included in a Data Management and Sharing Plan. Guidance on planning and budgeting and selecting a data repository are available on the NIH Scientific Data Sharing website.
NIH DMS Resources
- DMS Policy Overview
- DMS Policy FAQs
- Learning Resources including 2-part webinar series on DMS Policy
RU Markus Library Resources
- NIH DMS seminar series
- Libguides for DMS policy
- DMPTool includes RU guidance to assist in creating DMS plans
NSF Data Management Plan
The PI and the institution will adhere to the NSF policy for data management on all NSF proposals and awards. The PI will share the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created/gathered in their NSF-supported research project with the research community [customize this statement to your own data produced by your study]. The dissemination of the data will be as cost-effective as possible, and will be made available at the lowest cost feasible to the PI and the project. The project team is committed to sharing data and samples [customize this statement to your own data produced by your study] within a reasonable time following publication of research results. If any intellectual property involving commercialization efforts occurs, the PI will work towards making the technology widely available to the research community. The data will be archived using a secure environment with easy-to-retrieve capabilities [describe your specific plans for archiving study data, e.g. project website, public repository, restricted access facility, other].
Specific NSF data management plan requirements by Directorate, Division, or Program, are on NSF Data Sharing Policy website.
Other Sponsors
American Heart Association (AHA): Investigators submitting applications to AHA due on or after July 1, 2014 must include a data sharing plan. More>>
IP Management
Regardless of sponsor, the following may be used when intellectual property or other commercialization matters apply: We are committed to ensuring that the resulting research tools are freely shared with the research community. In addition, opportunities for technology transfer through commercialization will be explored as appropriate. The PI will work with the Rockefeller University's Office of Technology Transfer (RU OTT) to manage resulting intellectual property. RU OTT serves faculty, staff and students by commercializing inventions, ideas and software developed at the University to ensure that new knowledge generated by this project is effectively disseminated.
RU's OTT contributed to this text.
Software and Code Sharing Plan
This plan establishes Rockefeller's expectations that all Rockefeller investigators make available software and source code that are developed and modified to achieve the goals of the [insert project title].
Consisent with its goals to [state project's goals], Rockefeller investigators must take all reasonable steps to make software and source codes developed or derived pursuant to these goals, available to other academic and nonprofit scientists for research purposes after their publication through a simple site license agreement unless either:
- the software and source codes, along with a simple site licence agreement, will be posted on Rockefeller's website at [provide web address], or
- the software and source code can be obtained from third parties on reasonable terms.
Investigators are expected to respond promptly to all reasonable requests for software (and source code) they have authored, and should generally accomodate reasonable requests within 30 days. If this timeframe is impractical, the investigators should communicate promptly with the requestor about when the request will be fulfilled.
This plan was developed by the Bioinformatics Team of the RU CTSA grant in conjunction with OTT and OGC.
Other Sharing Plans/Resources
Disseminating Newly Developed Knowledge (Tools, Reagents, and Techniques)
Model Organism Sharing Plan
The Rockefeller University's Office of Technology Transfer
Data Management Plan Guidelines Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
NIH Common Data Elements (CDE) Resource Portal
NSF Effective Practices for Making Research Data Discoverable and Citable (Data Sharing)
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