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What does the NIH 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy mean for you?
By Janice Hermer, Karalyn Ostler, Kevin Pardon, and Matthew Harp A new National Institute of Health (NIH) Data Management and Sharing Policy goes into effect on January 25, 2023. The last policy was implemented in 2003, nearly twenty years ago! With this update, all NIH gr...
3 takeaways from the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Anali Maughan Perry - Head, Open Science and Scholarly Communication It’s been an exciting first month of the semester, especially with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) releasing a memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Researc...
Government Information: An Overlooked Gem
CJ Garcia, Scholarly Communication Intern Handy, Levin C, photographer. Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. United States, 1894. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007664064/. Government inf...
Federal Government makes it easier to Love Your Data
Laura Vlieg, Research Data Curation Intern Researchers should distribute information widely and free of cost: so say proponents of the concept of open access. One prong of open access is the open data movement, which seeks to democratize access to the vast amount of data produced on a daily basis. ...
What is open science and how do I practice it?
CJ Garcia, Scholarly Communication Intern Open science is practicing science in such a way that makes research results, products, and processes freely available for reuse, redistribution, and reproduction. Open science has many benefits, including enabling faster real-world application of scientifi...