Data Requirements by Agency

Increasing Federal mandates to:

*preserve, maintain and provide access to Federally support research data, and
*create reliable and reproduceable data from Federally funded research.

Feb 2013- White House OSTP issues the Memorandum on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.   (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf)

July 2022- US GAO- report on Research Reliability ( https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104411.pdf ). GAO I recommendations for evaluating research for the “soundness and precision of study design, execution, data collection, and analysis” — and on transparency, ensuring that this information is documented and shared freely.

August 2022- OSTP memo to Heads of Executive Department and Agencies- “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.  (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf )

May 2022- NSTC issues guidance on Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research. ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/05-2022-Desirable-Characteristics-of-Data-Repositories.pdf )

January 2023- NIH policy requiring Data management and Sharing Plan. Under policy- investigators are required to:  prospectively plan for the managing and sharing of scientific data; submit a DMS plan; and comply with the approve plan. (https://oir.nih.gov/sourcebook/intramural-program-oversight/intramural-data-sharing/2023-nih-data-management-sharing-policy )

NSF Policy on requiring grant proposals to have a robust Data management Plan is built into the PAPPG. (https://new.nsf.gov/funding/data-management-plan )

DOE (Energy) Policy for Digital Research Data Management- (https://www.energy.gov/datamanagement/doe-policy-digital-research-data-management)

Office of Science Funding Statement on Digital Data management-  (https://science.osti.gov/Funding-Opportunities/Digital-Data-Management)

Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy- EREE Digital Data Management Planning requirements- https://www.energy.gov/eere/funding/planning-requirements

National Endowment for the Humanities requirement is found in their terms and conditions-

(https://www.neh.gov/general-terms-and-conditions-awards-organizations-grants-and-cooperative-agreements-issued-january-2022#_Toc92721720 )

NASA- proposals require data management plan- https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/osdmp/

National Institute of Justice- Data archiving plan requirement (https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/research-development-and-evaluation-grant-award-requirements#data)

Department of Transportation- (https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/Official%20DOT%20Public%20Access%20Plan.pdf )

U.S. Department of Commerce- DMP requirement.
NIST DMP -
https://www.nist.gov/ctl/pscr/funding-opportunities/award-recipient-resource-center

NOAA Data Management Planning Procedural Directive -  https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMC/PD.DMP.php

US Department of Education- policy requiring public access (https://ies.ed.gov/funding/datasharing_policy.asp)

DHHS- ACL. AHRQ, CDC, FDA, NIH, SAMHSA all have data access and or DMP requirements.

DOD- DMP in STIP (https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/320012p.pdf?ver=2018-12-17-130508-423 )