NIH Policy Review
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a new policy on data management and sharing for data generated from NIH-funded or -conducted research that will go into effect on Jan. 25, 2023. Chief among the new requirements is for researchers to develop and submit a data management and sharing plan as part of the grant application process.
To learn more about the policy, visit the NIH’s scientific data sharing hub, which contains all information pertaining to this and other relevant agency policies and resources. A helpful starting point for institutions and investigators is the NIH’s Learning page — particularly the two-webinar series on policy implementation.
Latest updates from NIH:
- Sample data management and sharing plans
- Policy compliance through eRA System validations
- Frequently Asked Questions
Report: Institutional Strategies for the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: Infrastructure, Policies, and Services
As academic institutions prepare to meet a greater demand among researchers on their campuses given the upcoming NIH policy, sharing existing tactics and expected strategic opportunities is critical to meeting this demand.
The Association of Academic Health Science Libraries (AAHSL), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) conducted a research project to identify and lift up existing or proposed innovations in infrastructure, policies, and services for other institutions to reuse, build upon, or otherwise leverage to meet this upcoming NIH policy.
Relevant Initiatives for Institutional Readiness
Gonzales S, Carson MB, Holmes K. Ten simple rules for maximizing the recommendations of the NIH data management and sharing plan. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022;18(8):e1010397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010397
Council on Government Relations. COGR’s NIH data management and sharing policy readiness guide. https://www.cogr.edu/cogrs-nih-data-management-and-sharing-readiness-guide. Accessed September 26, 2022.
A national librarian task force (the “NIH DMSP Guidance” Working Group) is developing an array of resources to guide both researchers and data management service providers on adopting the new policy: https://osf.io/uadxr/.
A DMPTool working group is creating updates and revisions specific to the NIH templates, as well as additional educational content: https://dmptool.org/
Institutional Links
- Boston University Libraries
- Emory University Research Data
- Hofstra/Northwell Zucker School of Medicine
- Penn State Office of the Senior Vice President for Research
- The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Arizona Data Cooperative
- University of California, Davis
- University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania- Penn Libraries
- University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine
- University of Michigan Library
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
- Weill Cornell Medicine
To share resources that your institution has developed to assist researchers with carrying out this NIH policy, please email links to Anurupa Dev, PhD, at adev@aamc.org.