Funder Data Policies

Details are available for the following UCT Funders:

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  • Data centre: provision of a data centre to curate unpublished electronic resources or data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: