The NIMH has released a notice regarding new data sharing expectations for NIMH-funded and non-NIMH-funded research.
From Notice Number: NOT-MH-15-012
“As of May 1, 2015, NIMH expects investigators and their institutions to provide basic plans for following this Notice in the “Data Sharing Plan” located in the Resource Sharing Plan section of grant applications. Compliance with this data sharing plan will become a special term and condition in the Notice of Award. The Institutional Certification (for sharing human data) should also be provided prior to award along with any other Just-in-Time information. Researchers who are funded by NIMH are strongly encouraged to share their data via the NIMH Data Archive, and to use NIMH Data Archive to advance their projects. This encouragement is extended to all investigators who have data related to mental illness, regardless of the source of support for their research.
In order to allow investigators to prepare and budget appropriately, NIMH expects that applications involving clinical research with human subjects submitted for funding after May 1, 2015 will plan to submit their data to the NIMH Data Archive. Current NIMH awardees are invited to talk to their Program Officer about the possibility of submitting an administrative supplement request to allow data being collected in current studies to be shared using this infrastructure.”
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