Brown Bag Lunch presentation for researchers on how to comply with DMP and public access sections on grants, as required by the OSTP memo of 2013. Note: Many s…

Policy’s implementation is key to accelerating biomedical discoveries.

The scholarly communication landscape is rapidly changing and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of data management. Mandates by major funding agencies, further expanded by executive order and pending legislation in 2013, require many research grant applicants to provide data management plans for preserving and making their research data openly available. However, do faculty researchers have the requisite skill sets and are their institutions providing the necessary infrastructure to comply with these mandates? To answer these questions, three groups were surveyed in 2012: research and teaching faculty, sponsored programs office staff, and institutional repository librarians. Survey results indicate that while faculty desire to share their data, they often lack the skills to do this effectively. Similarly, while repository managers and sponsored programs offices often provide the necessary infrastructure and knowledge, these resources are not being promoted effectively to faculty. The study offers important insights about services academic libraries can provide to support faculty in their data management efforts: providing tools for sharing research data; assisting with describing, finding, or accessing research data; providing information on copyright and ownership issues associated with data sets; and assisting with writing data management plans.

"The DIWG will provide the ACD and the NIH Director with expert advice on the management, integration, and analysis of large biomedical datasets." Big data only, which IMO is a mistake.

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Upcoming Changes to Public Access Policy Reporting Requirements and Related NIH Efforts to Enhance Compliance NOT-OD-12-160. NIH

"John Bargh provided the data from his original study (Bargh & Shalev, 2012), but demanded that Donnellan and colleagues keep the data confidential and not share it or their re-analyses with anyone. That demand flies in the face of both APA and NIH ethical guidelines."