“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking to improve its data management and sharing challenges with the new NIH Policy on Data Management and Sharing that will become effective on Jan. 25, 2023.”
“The new policy will replace the 2003 NIH Data Sharing Policy still in effect. Susan Gregurick, associate director for data science and director of the Office of Data Science Strategy at NIH explained that data management and data sharing is ‘something that’s on everybody’s mind at NIH and in the community.'”
“’We, of course, want to align with our NIH Data Management and Sharing policy,’ Gregurick said on March 31 during a GovernmentCIO Media and Research event. ‘Everybody is thinking about it. We’re coordinating across all of our 27 institutes and centers to provide resources and guidance to the community.'”
“Gregurick said NIH’s Office of Extramural Research will launch a website in late April with resources for researchers on how to develop a data management plan, repositories to share data in, and navigate the complexities of data and policies for different programs.”
“She also said NIH is currently preparing its data repositories for new training on data management and data sharing for the community, including an April 6 webinar with the data curation network on how researchers can develop data management plans…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH Looks to Improve Data Management, Sharing With New Policy – By Grace Dille, April 1, 2022. MeriTalk.
