Compliance

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2013): Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research

Browse article and data sharing requirements by Federal Agency: SPARC

National Science Foundation – Dissemination and Sharing of Research Results

National Institutes of Health – Data Sharing Policy

National Institute of Justice – Data Archiving Plans for NIJ Funding Applicants

National Endowment for the Humanities – Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Additional funding agency requirements available in SHERPA/JULIET.

PLOS – Data Availability and Materials and Software Sharing

Science – Data Deposition and Data & Materials Availability After Publication

Nature – Availability of Data and Materials

American Psychological Association – Certification of Compliance with APA Ethical Principles (see Section 8.14 on Sharing Research Data for Verification)

Royal Society Publishing – Data Sharing and Mining

For journal publishers not listed here, see the publisher’s site or instructions for the specific journal you’re publishing in.

Metadata can be thought of as a way of reporting on your data and is beneficial in helping others find and use your data.

If you are looking for a possible metadata schema to use with your own project, consider this list from the Digital Curation Centre in the United Kingdom: List of Metadata Standards