Funder Data Policies
Details are available for the following UCT Funders:
- National Research Foundation (NRF) [awaiting ratification]
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Wellcome Trust
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Gates Foundation
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- European Commission (links to "Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020", version 2.0, 30 October 2015 - full profile coming soon)
Overview of funder publication, data policies and support provided:
N.B. The research funder links in the table take you to the detailed funder guidelines. F- Full coverage; P- Partial Coverage; N- No coverage
| Policy Coverage | Policy Stipulations | Support Provided | |||||||||
| Click below to access details | Published Outputs | Data | Time Limits | Data Plan | Access/ Sharing | Long-term curation | Monitoring | Guidance | Repository | Data Centre | Costs |
| NRF* | F | F | F | N | F | N | P | P | N | N | P |
| NERC | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | P |
| Wellcome Trust | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | P | F |
| MRC | F | F | F | F | F | F | P | P | F | N | P |
| EDCTP | F | F | F | F | F | P | F | F | F | N | P |
| Gates Foundation | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | N | N | F |
| NSF | F | F | F | F | F | P | F | F | F | F | P |
SA National Funding RCUK funding EU/Horizon 2020 funding US Federal Funding
Original concept and UK funder details provided by the Digital Curation Centre .
Terms
- Published outputs: a policy on published outputs e.g. journal articles and conference papers
- Data: a datasets policy or statement on access to and maintenance of electronic resources
- Time limits: set timeframes for making content accessible or preserving research outputs
- Data plan: requirement to consider data creation, management or sharing in the grant application
- Access/sharing: promotion of OA journals, deposit in repositories, data sharing or reuse
- Long-term curation: stipulations on long-term maintenance and preservation of research outputs
- Monitoring: whether compliance is monitored or action taken such as withholding funds
- Guidance: provision of FAQs, best practice guides, toolkits, and support staff
- Repository: provision of a repository to make published research outputs accessible
- Data centre: provision of a data centre to curate unpublished electronic resources or data
- Costs: a willingness to meet publication fees and data management / sharing costs
Deposit Guidelines for Funding Agency Approved Repositories
Deposit guidelines for data destined for funder mandated repositories:
- NIH list of approved repositories is a comprehensive list of 70 various scientific database deposit and access guidelines.
- NERC data centre for Atmospheric science
- NERC data centre for Earth sciences
- NERC data centre for Marine Science
- NERC data centre for Polar Science
- NERC data centre for Terrestrial & freshwater science, Hydrology
- Genbank for nucleotide and protein sequence data
- UK Data Service for social science data