Research Data Repositories

Where Should You Keep Your Data?

Formal policies on information storage are finally beginning to emerge from federal grant agencies

Karen M. Markin | June 23, 2015

Federal funding agencies have made it clear that grant proposals must include plans for sharing research data with other scientists. What has not been clear is how and where researchers should store their data, which can range from sensitive personal medical information to enormous troves of satellite imagery.

<more at http://chronicle.com/article/Where-Should-You-Keep-Your/231065/; related links: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/sharing.htm (NIH Sharing Policies and Related Guidance on NIH-Funded Research Resources) and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PYOhBh6bglh6BkQFlpvNLOwlpzvQyguWAG8AkQMtU0s/edit#gid=0 ("A table summarizing the Federal public access policies resulting from the US Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum of February 2013"] --with updates [Blogger's note]>