Managing Compliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy

Before: Your proposal must include a Data Management and SharingPlan (DMSP), which will describe your plan for how the scientific data generated by your research will be preserved, made accessible (or explain why it is not possible to share, if there are privacy or other reasons preventing this).

After: Your research data must be placed in a digital repository named in your DMSP. According to the NIH, "NIH will expect funded researchers to deposit data in appropriate, existing, publicly accessible repositories before considering other means of making data available. Researchers will be expected to describe any use of data repositories in their data management plans."

Learn more at the NIH website: https://sharing.nih.gov/data-management-and-sharing-policy/planning-and-budgeting-for-data-management-and-sharing/writing-a-data-management-and-sharing-plan

• NIH Preferences per DMSP effective 2023 (desirable characteristics)
  • Disciplinary (e.g., ICPSR, VectorBase)
  • Data-type specific (e.g., Cell Image Library)
  • Generalist (e.g., FigShare, Zenodo, Dryad)
  • Supplementary materials attached to PubMed submission (<2GB)
     
• Finding Repositories
  • curate.nd.edu (Notre Dame’s Institutional Repository) 
  • Fair Sharing (compares data repositories for their compliance with the FAIR principles and journal data-sharing policies)
  • NIH National Library of Medicine Domain-Specific Repository List
  • Registry of Research Data Repositories (global registry of research data repositories)
  • Open Access Directory: Data Repositories (OAD repositories and databases for open data, organized by subject)
• Remember to 
  • Verify the retention policies match your needs
  • Factor in sharing costs after the grant ends